I've been trying over and over again to get sysinst to work, but it refuses
to install NetBSD-1.4 on my Power Macintosh 8500.  Trying every permutation
of installing, upgrading, re-installing, from a CD or through ftp, the
closest I got was half way through the base set.  I'm giving up on sysinst,
because if I try working with it any longer I'll end up giving up on
computers (anybody know of a high paying ditch digging job?).

What does this program do?  I figure it does these steps:

	Partitions your hard drive
	Formats the appropriate partitions
	Mounts the appropriate partitions
	Finds the installation sets (setting up whatever devices are needed)
	Extracts the files from the installation sets

Am I missing any steps.  I've played around in the shell after booting from
the floppy.  It seems to me that I can do these things from the shell.  If
I do these steps manually, will it work?

By the way, once I do this, how do I tell Open Firmware to boot NetBSD from
the hard drive?

Also by the way, is it just me, or is www.netbsd.org not responding to
everybody else?


Eric Damien Berna
Thiel Design
Phone: 414.271.0775
Email: eric@thiel.com