On 12-Jan-2003 Ezequiel Reyes wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried everything the way I was told in this list to install NetBSD y my
> laptop, but it still doesn't work. I created a particion NetBSD kind of
> ~2Gb, selected custom and divided it in label "a" with offset at the
> beginning of the BSD real particion and set its size to 1479 MB, then label
> "b" as swap with the remaining 600 MB starting at the end of the "a" labeled

What's about wd0e --> /usr
For me it is the biggest partition.

> part and taking the rest of the space in the BSD particion. This time I
> selected to install a bootmanager (not installing it didn't work, so I gave
> it a try), but still it all dies with this message: "mount of device
> /dev/wd0a on / failed" (I set / as the mount point for "a"). The screen
> flashes to fast to see the command executing, though I guess it is "mount"
> with some parameters, and then the error shows in the blue screen of the
> installer. Did I miss something? Could it be that the installer can not
> access the BSD particion of 2Gb at the end of a hard drive of 30 ? Should I
> set any bios parameter or something like that?
> 

Try a standart installation with default values.