Hi,

This one is in the FAQ:

   http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/faq/faq-4.html#ss4.12

It includes my work around if you just cannot get it working through the
installer. 

The rest of the FAQ is a vey good read too ;->

Mark

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Maurice Hason wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I installed NetBSD for the first time about a week ago on an external 9Gig
> HD that is hooked up to a IIci. Everything worked fine, it booted and
> worked.
> Since I am not a Unix expert, I made a lot of mistakes while learning
> during this week and therefore I decided to reinstall everything clean
> again.
> 
> I initialized the partitions and since then I am getting the following
> error in the installation process (while installing base.tgz)
> 
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> Error on SCSIWrite(), #5
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> Error on SCSIWrite(), #5
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> Error on SCSIWrite(), #5
> pos = 0, i = 279, fs = /
> 
> I get this error every time exactly at the same point, right after this line:
> drwxr-xr-x 3/7		0 Thu Jan 01 07:22 1998 ./usr/include/g++/gen
> 
> I tryed to partition the HD both with HDT and Silverlining, I tryed to
> change the partition sizes, I reformatted completely the disk using
> bad-block reallocation, but.. nothing worked.
> 
> P.S. I partitioned it 2GB for the root, 2GB for the usr, 1GN for the swap
> and I left the rest of the space free, unformatted.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Maurice
> 
> 
> 
> 


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