Hi William,

I'm sorry I cannot help you directly. The mailing list you used,
port-m68k, is more concerned with general issues about the Motorola
68x00 CPUs and not those specific to Macintosh machines.

I send this answer along to the correct list port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
where people may be able to help you.

ciao
     Klaus


William Duke wrote:
> I'm having a great deal of trouble installing NetBSD on a Quadra 700.   I
> continuously get this message, among others:
> 
> "It appears that /dev/sd0a is not a BSD file system or the fsck was not
> successful.  The upgrade has been aborted. (Error number 9.)"
> 
> I don't know what the problem is here.   I am using sysinst to attempt an
> FTP installation from ftp.netbsd.org.   I have used sysinst to setup the
> internal hard drive with no luck.   I have tried using Mkfs 1.47 to setup my
> hard drive, again with no success.
> 
> I'm at a total loss here.   I have absolutely no idea what the problem is
> and the documentation and other files have proven to be of little or no
> help.  I have detailed the machine specifics below:
> 
> Macintosh Quadra 700 computer
> 8 Megabytes of RAM
> 400 Megabyte Hard Drive (Internal SCSI)
> 32-bit addressing is ON
> Virtual memory is off
> Mac OS version 7.1.1
> Hard drive partitions look like this:
> 
> -driver partition
> -Mac HFS partition (20 MB)
> -BSD Root partition (300MB)
> -BSD Swap partition (20MB)
> -BSD Usr partition (68MB)
> --remainder of the disk is unallocated
> 
> Any ideas on what the problem could be and/or how I could fix it?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William