| I eventually managed to successfully install NetBSD/i386
| 1.5_ALPHA2.  1.4.2 wouldn't do DHCP so I had to resort to an
| Alpha =o(  1.5_ALPHA2 wouldn't boot though, just filled my
| screen with the error message I mentioned (something like
| "no tag found for card 2").

Ouch, this is pretty poor. Can you explain how you installed
it with it not booting? 

Can you give us the full error message and the messages that
preceded it?


| The second machine I tried it on gave kept complaining about
| device timouts on the network card... so I couldn't even
| install on that one. =o(

Can we have more details here, also? Type of network card,
was it PCMCIA, kind of machine, etc., etc.?

--jhawk