Hi Patrick,

Unfortunately, the installer is in bad need of a rewrite and
has been for quite some time.  Also, unfortunately, I have
not had time to do so(between switching jobs, starting a new
relationship, etc.).

Most of the code in the installer is left over from the old
MacBSD days(before this effort became a full integrated part
of NetBSD).  The code has some limitations and bugs in dealing
with large disks.  It seems not to be able to deal with partitions 
located beyond the first gigabyte of the drive.  Since your
HFS partition takes up the first gigabyte, I'm imagining 
that is causing your problems.  I'm pretty sure you're not
going to be able to get the installer to work with your 
setup.

Having said that, I think that the "sysinst" based install
is supposed to be functional and needing testing.  Since all
other ports use a sysinst-based install, it's being pushed
as the future roadmap of how we should be installing, too.

Someone else on the list should be able to point you towards
any needed documentation on how to install using sysinst,
etc.  Having used sysinst to install NetBSD/macppc at work
I found it rather straightforward and easy to use.

Hope that helps...

Steve
sbrown@best.com

> From pwolfe@columbus.rr.com Mon Jan 31 17:07:31 2000
> To: <sbrown@shellx.best.com>
> Subject: installing netbsd on a mac iicx
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> Steve,
>  Hello, I am having problems  installing the base.tgz and other tgz;s files
> on my mac iicx. I have all the requirements plus a little extra. (Hdd 2.0gb,
> 20mb ram and mac II video card). I have tried to install the tgz files with
> following scsi #5  error and  I seem to get them on large tgz files. The hdd
> is partitioned into three part the first is a 1gb hfs for the macos and the
> 2nd and  third are a usr&root  one partition and swap. I was reading the faq
> on this error message and tried to execute it with little success. I have
> not re-partitioned because of time and I put so much into it to find out
> that I may need to repartition. Can you please help and give a detailed
> message on how to copy the tgz files onto the root partition and how the
> cpin command works because  I think this is my barrier?
>  thanks
> Patrick Wolfe
> Email:pwolfe@columbus.rr.com
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