> I'm totally new to this mailing list and I'm not sure whether or not it is
> allowed to ask not technical questions. If not, sorry in anticipation.

Welcome to the list, and, don't worry - your question is totally appropriate.

>
> When I try to install NetBSD to a Mac IIci (80 MB ram, 4 GB -Barracuda- at
> scsi id 0, CDRom at id 3, ethernet, bichannel active isdn card, csi hurdler
> ser ports), after starting the NetBSD/Mac68k Installer I'm getting the
> following error:
>
> >sd0 at scsi ID 0.
> >Partition read, SCSIID = 0
> >Mounting partition 'A' as /
> >sd0a: Root 'NetBSD Root & Usr' at 4189661 size 2094208
                                     ^^^^^^^ 2GB into the drive(512byte units)

> >sd0b: Other (FWB DRIVER COMPONENTS) 'FWB Driver Components' at 101 size 1024
> >sd0d: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 1245 size 2094208
> >sd0e: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 2095453 size 2094208
> >sd0f: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 6283869 size 2096210
> >sd0g: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Extra' at 8380079 size 1
> >Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> >failed mountfs(), error 22.
> >Error mounting root.
> >mount root. : Undefined error: 0

If I read the debug output above, you've got 4 1GB partitions, only one
of which is a NetBSD partition(the root one).  The root partition appears
to be the third physical partition and is located above the halfway point
of the drive(beyond the 2GB point).  The installer has been somewhat 
notoriously flaky in regards to handling root partitions that are large
and located further into the drive.  Your best bet would be to somehow
move the root to the first physical partition and to make it less than
1GB in size(500MB or less is my recommendation).  I haven't really had
a chance to figure out why things are so flaky.  And, I'm not likely to
figure it out soon as I'm fairly busy right now(I just switched companies). 
But, try that and let me know if it works better.  If it does, it'll
give me(or whoever eventually looks at it) a better clue of what to look
for and fix.

Steve Brown,
sbrown@best.com

p.s.  If you do shuffle the partitions around, I'd recommend that you
	create a "swap" partition while you have a chance.  Even with
	52MB of ram in my system, I still have some swapping/paging
	happen when I try to run something like mozilla ;-)...

>
> Any idea, what's the reason why? I took a look at the FAQ at the mac68k page
> at NetBSD.org, but I didnīt see any *obvious* reason. Please keep in mind
> I'm pretty unexperienced with any Unix and trying to get NetBSD working on
> that IIci is my very first experience (exception made for some use of Lynx
> with an Apple II from shell). 
>
> (What I want to do is to give that nice machine "a second chance" as server
> in a small bnc ethernet based lan (3 macs, 1 Apple IIGS), mainly as internet
> gateway and as file server).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help and suggestion (and forgive my ignorance),
>
> Ulrich
>