On Feb 11, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Jeremy Venaas wrote:

> Hello,
>
> okay this has become more than frustrating,
> I have read and done ALL of the installation steps as
> listed on both of the installtaion links and nothing
> first of heres is the hardware
> macintosh quadra 700 64mb ram(real not virtuaL)

I am running 1.6.1/mac68k on a Quadra 700, with 20 MB RAM and 4GB disk.  
  So it *is* possible!  ;-)

> 500MB HD partitioned with Mkfs and pdisk

Hmmm.  The instructions suggest using the Apple HD SC Setup utility,  
not pdisk.  I found these instructions to work exactly as described.

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/theobald/#installation_formatting- 
disks

These instructions were also helpful:

http://www.macunix.net:443/installguide/installguide.html

The symptoms you describe sound like there was a step skipped in  
creating the partitions on the hard drive.    Specifically I think you  
need to make sure that you used the Apple HD Setup utility (which may  
need to be patched if you are using a non-Apple drive) and created A/UX  
partitions before running Mkfs.  I say this because it sounds really  
familiar from when I installed NetBSD 1.4.2 several years ago <sheepish  
grin>.

Hope this helps!