>I guess that with the newer version of Mkfs that converts Mac partitions, 
>the point is moot since that's what people should be using if they dont 
>own a commercial formater.

But mkfs doesn't do drive formatting so you'd still need something to 
format the drive and lay down the Partition Map and multiple MacOS 
Partitions at a minimum.  Once that's done mkfs should be able to convert 
the MacOS Partitions into NetBSD types and initialize the BSD Filesystems.

-bob