Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/11/09/0001.html

I think that you do *not* want to have a "sources" dirctory on your CD.
Instead, put the "i386" directory in the root of the CD.

That doesn't mean that you have to burn a new CD, though.  The system
installer should ask you in which directory to look for the .tgz files.
Just add "sources/" to the front of the directory name, and it may be
okay.


A secondary problem that might emerge is if you manually used FTP to get
the files.  You might have grabbed the files in "text mode".  Unfortunately,
this may have garbled the files.  If that's the case, you will have to get
them again (in "image" or "binary" mode).  But, first, try just telling
the system installer to look in sources/i386/... for the sets, instead of
/i386/... (which is the default).


NOTE: The above is based on general experience and a quick peek at a
bootable NetBSD CD that I have here (from which I have done a normal install).
I may have said something quite wrong somewhere above.  But I think that
it's correct.  (^&

Good luck.


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