On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> 
> I'm tryin to add some more disk space.  Now I have bsd on
> a partion of my 2 giga external.  I want to try and add
> a /var file system on my internal 258 meg drive.
:
:
> 7 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:       32      144     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>   b:   268630   260176         HFS                        # (Cyl. 1355*- 2754*)
>   c:   528808        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2754*)
>   d:        2   528806     unknown                        # (Cyl. 2754*- 2754*)
>   g:   260000      176      4.2BSD        1024     4096     16   # (Cyl.    0*- 1355*)
> 
> Here is the disklabel when I get this "no disklabel-- NetBSD or Macintosh"
> message on the screen.

That does look kind of wierd. What happens if you change the type to
"Root&Usr", instead of "Usr", using Mkfs? That should put the NetBSD
partition on "a", ahead of all the other junk.
 
> And the "newfs /dev/sd0g" command gives ne this message:
> " device not configured.

newfs wants to use the raw device, /dev/rsd0g (or a). It's supposed to
just warn you though, when you try to use the block device, so that's
probably not the whole problem.