Hi,

>The drive is too large for the mkfs and/or mac install utility to handle.  You
>can try one of two things:
>
>1) Partition your 2 Gig drive the way you want, install NetBSD on a smaller
>drive like an 80 MB drive and boot into NetBSD off of it, mount and format the
>2 Gig drive under netbsd using newfs, install NetBSD from MacOS side as
>before.  You must have the 2 Gig drive in an external case.
>

I've been told that its a good idea to make sure that if you use this
method (using newfs), you should make sure newfs is creating a BSD4.2 type
partition rather than the default, BSD4.4, because the latter is somehow
incompatible with the booter utility.

Also, I've been told that making the biggest partition (>1 gig or
something) the first physical partition on the disk is a good idea.

There's a note of what procedure to use in the MacBSD FAQ, which is what I
used:

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

good luck!

  - a