On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:28:24PM +0100,
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote 
 a message of 31 lines which said:

> This is the problem; maybe you want /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 here instead ?

Now, it starts but, as I said, crashes, either at startup or when
running sysinst:

                                                                                
 You have chosen to install NetBSD on your hard disk.  This will change         
 information on your hard disk.  You should have made a full backup before      
 this procedure!  This procedure will do the following things:                  
         a) Partition your disk
         b) Create new BSD file systems
         c) Load and install distribution sets 
         d) Some initial system configuration 
                                                                                
 (After you enter the partition information but before your disk is changed,
 you will have the opportunity to quit this procedure.)                         
 
 Shall we continue?     
                               lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
                               x yes or no?    x
                               x               x
                               x a: No         x
                               xuvm_fault(0xc5a08c40, 0, 1) -> 0xe
kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0qqqqqj                  
Stopped in pid 1359.1 (sysinst) at      0xc022f103:     pushl   0x144(%edx)
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