On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, David wrote:

> I'm trying to install netbsd on a Quadra 700 with 12mb RAM. When I start
> the installer I get this error:
> 
> sd0 at scsi ID 1.
> Partition read, SCSIID = 1
> Mounting partition 'A' as /
> sd0a: Root 'NetBSD Root & Usr' at 1320192 size 1849966
> sd0b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 1200192 size 120000
> sd0d: HFS_PART 'La Cie 1580' at 192 size 1200000
> sd0e: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Extra' at 3170158 size 2
> failed mountfs(), error 22.
> Error mounting root.
> mount root. : Undefined error: 0

Did you make the filesystem on 'NetBSD Root & Usr'?  There's two steps
that you need to perform in Mkfs, 1) set the partition type (which you
evidently did), and 2) "make filesystem", which does what other OS's
cal a "format". If you did make the filesystem, did you see any errors?