On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Lee Reynolds wrote:

> The first problem, or symptom of the problem, shows up
> right away.  The install program complains about fail
> on reading something and calls this a #5 error.  The
> install program doesn't quit at this point, it will
> let you continue.  The next problem, which is fatal,
> is an scsi read error #5 during the install of
> base.tgz.  

> Are there any known issues with the install program
> and seagate drives, or with larger drives in general?

Yes, there are issues with the Install program:

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq-4.html#ss4.12

Perhaps a better solution than that described in the FAQ would be to
use the menu driven (ramdisk) sysinstall. There are some notes on that
in the INSTALL docs. Be warned that there are still open issues with
the partitioning tool, but if you stick to the partitions you've
already made, that shouldn't be a problem.

The big hurdle is that the install kernel has no support for
interpreting HFS partitions, to read the sets. So you need either an
ftp or nfs server on your LAN, or you'd need to "cpin" the sets to a
spare partition (or the root partition, if you choose "upgrade"
instead of "new install"). If you still have a NetBSD partition on the
80M disk, that would be ideal.


Frederick