Rick Ramalho wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello List People,
> 
> I have an LC475, 20MB RAM and a Quantum 1.2GB Fireball.  I have a 500MB
> partition for the MacOS, a 50MB swap partition and the remaining is for
> NetBSD (@650MB).  In trying to install the "base" package, it get through
> to almost the end (95% or so) and then the following will appear in the
> window (shown below are the last few lines before the it stops).  The only
> thing I can then do is hit ENTER on the keyboard, and the install program
> will then exit.

[snip]
 
> Can anyone lend a hand.  I have tried reformatting the drive, putting the
> swap partition first, second and last.  I have changed the size of the
> NetBSD partition, changed the size of the swap partition without success.
> The error message looks like its a hard drive problem, but before I started
> this endeavor, the drive was fine with no bad blocks.
> 
> I am stumped (and my wife thinks I'm nuts).

if you've gotten this far, it's probably best to finish up the install
from within netbsd.  go ahead and install the kernel and the etc.tgz
distribution sets.  they're not very large, so hopefully they won't
trigger the above problem.  once that is done, see if you can use the
installer's minishell to cpin the remaining distribution sets.  assuming
that works, you can do the following:

1) boot into single-user mode
2) run 'fsck -y' (make sure that you've built devices and created a proper
   /etc/fstab in the installer first)
3) mount all of your filesystems read-write via 'mount -a'
4) unpack the distribution sets with:

	tar --unlink -xzvpf /path/to/distribution/set

5) reboot via 'shutdown -r now' and see how it goes....

if you can't manage to cpin the the remaining distribution sets, then a
little more work may be required....

later.

colin