At 09:23 AM 12/19/97 -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> 
>> If you all may recall, a short while ago I was having some
>> difficulty with using FWB to format NetBSD partitions.  It has
>> been frequently suggested that I simply do the formatting,
>> then use Mkfs to change the partition types to the proper
>> NetBSD types.
>> 
>> Still, since Apple HD SC Setup can do it, I thought, shouldn't
>> FWB HDT -- for which I paid $60.00 -- also be able to do it?
>
>Good question. Especially as I'm looking at upgrading a bundled version
>of HDT to a "full" version. This difficulty does not encourage me.

If the full version does what you want it to, I wouldn't
try to discourage you.  I'd just suggest that, if you wanted
some low-level support, they're not particularly good at it.

>Obviously the engineer doesn't understand. The kernel source takes
>up many meg, and only a little bit of it deals with the partition
>table.

Yes indeed -- that's what I tried to explain to them, but the
frontline support person didn't understand, didn't want to try,
and didn't seem too interested in moving me a little closer
to their engineer.  I suspect they'd assigned my case to a
relatively new engineer there.

>A better thing to send would probably be the source of Mkfs, as it has
>the ability to do the same thing, and it's a whole MacOS app. Or more
>easily, a URL (like

That might've helped -- however, I've burnt my bridges now,
so I've given up.  The support person, however, DID respond
to my email (perhaps because I forwarded it to all of her
bosses), apologizing for seeming snotty.  Of that, I was
quite amazed.

- Tim

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