>Make your 1st partition significantly smaller than 1Gb. My root is 250 MB,
>and when I did that, NetBSD suddenly installed fine, after numerous failed
>attempts.
>
>It seems that you _can_ partitions entirely above 1 GB from within NetBSD,
>but partitions that span the 1 GB barrier act funny. 

Knock on wood... I got mine up and running just a few minutes ago. I 
figured it was partition order that fixed it. Originally, I had MacHFS, 
NetBSD Swap, NetBSD Root&Usr in that order, I reversed it, and it seems 
to have installed fine.

But with your size notes, that might have had something to do with it. 
When it was failing, my Root&Usr was just a hair under 1 gig, now it is 
only 950 MB (was something like 997 MB, basically, whatever was left over 
after I assigned the other two).

All is up and running now, and I am finishing out the walkthru (have to 
set up my network connections now).

So it looks like I may have officially joined the NetBSD world... it only 
took me close to a year since I first started messing with it planning on 
putting it on a PowerBook 160 (never tried, only had a 60 MB HDD... I 
later moved to an SE/30, but after multiple attempts gave up do to being 
plagued with hardware problems on the Mac itself... finally have it up 
and running on a Quadra 610!)

-chris
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