--On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 08:51 +0100 "Anders, Peter"
<PETER.ANDERS@airbus.com> wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I am trying to install NETBSD1.5 on my oldfashion Mac LCII (running
> OS7.5). It shall be installed on an external Harddisk (9Mb Seagate
> SCSI id.1). Everything run fine (Partitioning with HD SC Setup with
> patch; mkfs) - until here no problems.
> 
> Then I started the Installer. First steps run okay (Build Devices).
> Also installing Sets (Base.tgz,.etc) started well. But when
> "Base.tgz" was ca. 90% ready following messages were generated to the
> Installer-window:
> 

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> Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> pos = 0, i = 78, fs = /
> alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
> 
> I tried it couple of times with the same result.
> 
> Can you explain it? What shall I do?

I ran into this at some point, as well. Check the archives and FAQs for
NetBSD/mac68k. As I recall, I got past this by increasing the MacOS
memory allocation for the Installer (maybe check the Installer
documentation).

Mark