Add text for workaround of sysinst not running newfs etc. as described

in PR mac68k/29049. Text for the workaround mostly provided by Hauke Fath.
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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.13 2002/07/19 07:17:52 scottr Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.14 2005/12/15 02:29:59 hubertf Exp $
.
No matter which installation method you use, there is some planning
and preparation that is required beforehand. First and foremost,
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.Sx Installing\ the\ NetBSD\ System\ (Sysinst\ Method)
in this document.
.Pp
.
.Ss NetBSD/mac68k sysinst Bug Alert
.
Because of a problem that could not be fixed in time for this release, the
.Nx*M
.Ic sysinst
installer neither creates file-systems on the configured partitions,
nor mounts them on the configured mountpoints, though it claims to.
Instead,
.Ic sysinst
attempts to install on the ramdisk and fails.
.Pp
Until this is fixed, you can either fall back to the Traditional Method
of installation described below, or you can use the following workaround:
.Pp
While editing the partition table in
.Ic sysinst ,
note on a sheet of paper the partitions with the related mount points
and disk devices. Since you have to do some manual work here, you probably
want to keep the partition structure simple. Continue with the installation,
and in the
.Pp
.
.Dl "Ok, we are now ready to install NetBSD on your hard disk (sd0)."
.Dl "Nothing has been written yet. This is your last chance to"
.Dl "quit this process before anything gets changed."
.Dl ""
.Dl "Shall we continue?"
.
.Pp
dialog, send
.Ic sysinst
to the background by pressing ctrl-Z. In the following, adjust "sd" (SCSI) or
"wd" (IDE) drive type, drive number (0, 1, ...) and partition letters
("a" for the root filesystem, "d", "e", etc.) as appropriate for
your setup. A concatenation of this with "/dev/r" will give you
the device name for the partition, e.g.
.Pa /dev/rsd0a
for the root partition of your first SCSI disk.
.Pp
At the shell prompt, manually create filesystems in the desired
partitions like
.Pp
.Dl # newfs /dev/rsd0a
.Pp
etc. for all the partitions you noted down.
Mount the root partition to
.Pa /targetroot ,
e.g.
.Pp
.Dl # mount /dev/sd0a /targetroot
.Pp
Then, if you have set up other partitions, create directories below
.Pa /targetroot
as mount points
and mount the partitions there according to your notes like e.g.
.Pp
.Dl # mount /dev/sd0e /targetroot/var
.Pp
You can list the mounted partitions with
.Xr df 1
and
.Xr mount 8
commands, unmounting a wrongly mounted filesystem can be done e.g. with
.Dq umount /targetroot/var .
.Pp
When all the partitions that you want to install to have been properly
set up, you can return to
.Ic sysinst
with the 'fg' command and proceed with the installation.
.
.Pp
.
.Ss Preparation for the Traditional Method
.
If you are using the Traditional method of installation you must use a
disk partitioning utility to designate the different partitions you
will want in your final