The netbsd-pdisk.macppc-1-6 binary should work when booted
from the 1.6.1 installation ISO.

Darrin

anselmg@t-online.de writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> is it possible to use this new pdisk with 1.6.1 Installation ISO (by
> fetching the pdisk file from a remote host)? Or is a more recent
> -current snapshot needed?
> 
> Regards,
> Anselm
> 
> Darrin B. Jewell schrieb:
> > 
> > The pdisk utility in the -current source tree has been
> > updated to be
> > able to create the A/UX style root, user and swap
> > partitions used by
> > NetBSD.  This should make installation easier since the
> > tools
> > discussed in the INSTALL document do not work on Mac OS
> > X.
> > Furthermore, the tools supplied with OS X do not support
> > creating
> > A/UX style partitions.
> > 
> > I have also compiled this utility on a NetBSD/macppc 1.6
> > system
> > and a MacOS X 10.2.5 system.  These binaries have been
> > uploaded
> > to
> > <URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/netbsd-pdisk>
> > 
> > The following files should be in that directory:
> > 
> >    README.pdisk              A copy of this description.
> >    netbsd-pdisk.macos-10-2   NetBSD's pdisk compiled on
> > Mac OS X 10.2.5
> >    netbsd-pdisk.macppc-1-6   NetBSD's pdisk compiled on
> > NetBSD/macppc 1.6
> >    netbsd-pdisk.src.20030424.tgz  An archive of the
> > sources.
> >    pdisk.cat8                The pdisk man page, with
> > terminal formatting.
> >    pdisk.cat8.txt            The pdisk man page as a
> > plain text file.
> > 
> > Please direct NetBSD/macppc installation and partitioning
> > questions
> > to the port-macppc mailing list at netbsd.org.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Darrin
> >