Nicely detailed! Unfortunatly you ran into some problems with sysinst.

You said the kern.tgz, etc files are on your msdos partition? I'm going to
assume so, and suggest a way to fix things up from this point.

Unfortunatly you have to repeat the parts of the install you did. I'll
show you where you need to make different answers.

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Richard PLOIX wrote:

> >   -> partition table in sec.
> >      No start(meg)	Size(meg)	End(meg)	Kind
                  ^^^        ^^^            ^^^
Did it really do that? Oops!

> >       0	6552		65520		72072	Primary DOS 16-bit FAT > 32 MB
> >       1	72072		615888		687960	NetBSD
> >       2	52		6500		6552	unknow
> >       3						unused

Remember the start & size of your msdos partition: 6552, 65520.

> >I say standard and return
> >   -> BSD-disklabel partition as (size and offset in meg)

I'd suggest doing it in sectors. Megabyte mode had some strange rounding
issues. Just remember that a sector is 1/2 a K. So 2048 sectors = a
megabyte. 36 MB = 73728 and 33 MB = 67584 sectors.

> >      id	size	offset	end	fstype	bsize	fsize	mountpoint
> >       a	36	35	71	4.2BSD	8192	1024	/
> >       b	33	72	104	swap
> >       c	300	35	335	unused
> >       d	336	0	335	unused
> >       e	230	105	335	4.2BSD	8192	1024	/usr
> >     Partitons are ok? 
> >I say yes and return

Say no. Add an "f" partition, start 6552, size 65520 and type MS-DOS.

Then say yes when it asks about partitions being ok.

> >   -> name for netbsd disk 5mywd0]:   return
> >      last chance.   return
> >      newfs /dev/rwd0a
> >      ---------------e
> >      the next step is to fetch and unpack the distribution sets.
> >I say yes and return
> >I select custom installation kern, base, etc
> >   -> do you want to see the files during extracting? no
> >I select floppy medium

At this point you want to select the "unmounted fs" option.

You want to say "msdos" for Filesystem, and "wd0f" for device (it's the
one we added above). If the files aren't in the top level of the dos
drive, set the path to them in the Directory setting. Remember that UNIX
uses "/" to seperate file names while windos uses "\". So a windows path
of "Program Files\Downloads" would be "Program Files/Downloads" for UNIX.

I think it should just work now.

Take care,

Bill