On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Tim Schmidt wrote:

> Hi.  Please forgive the newbie questions.
> 
> I am trying to partition my 105M hard drive for use with NetBSD/m68k 1.1.
> As recommended in the INSTALL file, I obtained a copy of Alliance Power
> Tools 2.7.3.  The INSTALL file says the root partition must be at least
> 50M for the full installation, which implies that the partition may be
> smaller if you don't want the full installation, or if you will have a
> /usr partition.  However, A.P.T. will not allow an AU/X root partition
> of less than 55.6M (or greater than 75M).  Is there any way around this?
> Or is there another program available for FTP that will partition?  (I
> can't use Apple's HD SC Setup because this isn't an Apple hard drive.)

You might try selecting root & usr instead of root.  Speaking for myself, 
trash APT and get the patched Apple HD SC Setup.  There's a version 
that's patched to accept any drive, called 7.5.2+ I believe.  If you 
can't find it anywhere else, drop in to

ftp://mug.utm.edu/STAFF_APPS/Gopher/MUG/pub/apple/AppleHDSCSetup7.3.2+.hqx

> Also, it seems A.P.T. will only create a root partition, swap partition,
> and the recovery partition, leaving the rest for an HFS partition.  How
> does one create /usr, /var, /etc and so forth?  Must they be on seperate
> drives?

Typically, they're all part of your A/UX Root & Usr Slice 0 partition.  
You can create a separate usr partition, but I don't know much about it.

The nice thing about the Apple partitioner is that the minimum for Root & 
Usr is only about 32 Megs.  I don't remember if there *is* a max.  Not 
sure.

> Once again, sorry for intrusion.  I know a bit about unix as a user, but
> none at all as a system admin.

The best way to learn is to jump in and try something new.

> Thanks for your time.
>         Tim
> 
> ______ Tim Schmidt ______
> The Ohio State University // Doc: Are you troubled by impure thoughts?
> schmidt.180@osu.edu // Patient: To tell the truth, I rather enjoy them!
> 
> 

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