"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
> 
> At 6:20 AM -0800 12/14/00, Greg Troutman wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:19:38 -0500
> >Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently purchased (very cheaply) a Quadra 800 and a Quadra 610 and
> > > upgraded them to 16 megs of ram for the purpose of installing NetBSD (I
> > > have many NetBSD i386 machines).  I've read the installation guide and
> > > the FAQ's which mention the Apple SC Partitioning tool.  I tried the
> > > tool, but I've found that it tags "*"'s on the 2 partitions (driver,
> 
> Right.  You can't reformat the partition that the formatter (or it's
> OS) is running from.
> 
> >The easiest way to do this is to get an external SCSI drive with the
> >MacOS, and install the NetBSD tools and some basic Mac utilities for
> >partioning hard drives.  You can then attach this drive to any new
> >Mac you want NetBSD on,
> 
> Yes this is nice, but you don't have to go this far.  The normal way
> to handle this on 68k Mac's is to use the Disk Tools boot floppy.
> Then you install a minimum version of MacOS on a 4+ MB partition that
> you left for the purpose.  I usually add MacTCP and Fetch to the
> minimum system and the MacBSD tools, and I make it big enough to hold
> the biggest installation tar file as well.

Hmm, I'm not familiar enough with MacOS yet to determine what is needed
for a minimum install, can anyone offer advice on this?

I have the drives formatted now, and I'm up against a new problem that
is hardware related.  I think I will need a Mac 10-BaseT connector or
possibly a Mac SCSI CD-ROM to copy the packages on the second hard
drive.  Does anyone know the costs associated with these items? 

> 
> You can't get away from MacOS and -- until recently -- most of us
> didn't want to because we wanted to be able to switch boot anyway.
> If the Mac is just another box to run *BSD on I suppose that's bad,
> but the work needed to eliminate the MacOS dependence is substantial.
> 
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Pat Wendorf