Subject: Re: Does mkfs trash other partitions?
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Lt Avram Dorfman <dorfman@hq.af.mil>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/09/1996 07:59:56
Ahh... very cool, but can you access HFS partitions from w/in NetBSD? Or
do you have to copy them in from the installer? (I don't have slip
working yet so I can't download directly to netbsd yet - I've located
the faq, but haven't tried it).
-1LT Avram Dorfman
HQ USAF Network Management
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > Great! But beware, the Installer will trash the /usr partition if you
> > try to mount it within the Installer. Newfs creates a file system
> > whose format the Installer doesn't fully understand.
>
> Note, though, that the netbsd installation files are gzipped tar files
> so you can extract them under a running NetBSD system with a bit of care
> and 'tar zxpf comp.tar.gz' or 'tar zxpf comp11' or whatever.
>
> -allen
>
> --
> Allen Briggs - end killing - briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
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>