At 12:05 PM +0100 2/17/01, Terje Elde wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:43:30PM -0600, Bob Nestor wrote:
> > Boot from a floppy and you can re-format and/or partition the hard disk.
> > There are some old 3rd party disk formatters that used to leave strange
> > partitions on the disk that would create the situation you describe.  The
> > patched Apple formatter won't do this, so the solution is to reformat and
> > partition with it.
>
>Chicken and egg problem then.
>
>I can't do anything with the apple utilities until I've wiped the FWB, and I
>can't wipe the FWB until I've used the apple utilities to partition for NetBSD
>install so I can wipe the disk.

Can't you just say update driver inside Apple's HD SC Format utility?

>I wish there was a MacOS version of dd, so I could thrash the thing.

This is possible with SunTar.  See the NetBSD/macppc FAQ.


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