Hi,
I have created a new partition map with pdisk on my old iMac
rev. A/
MacOS 8.6, intending to run NetBSD on it. I have not,
however, written
it yet, so the original partitioning table should still be
unaffected.
I have followed the instructions at
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/partitioning.html
but there is just one catch: when I specify an
Apple_UNIX_SVR2
partition, pdisk does not ask me to select a slice as
indicated by the
HOWTO.
Consequently, the partition table does not seem to contain
information
about the swap partition being a swap partition, or the root
partition
being a root partition.
Does this matter?
If it does, what can I do about it?
(I feel somewhat reluctant about overwriting the existing
partitioning
table since the only HFS partition I intend to keep is just
large
enough to hold the bootloader and won't be used for anything
else, so
if I get the partition table wrong, I'll be stuck with a
useless
computer.)
Cheers,
/Christer
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