> I think solved it, this is how my file system is layed out:
> 
> a 750M /
> b 512M swap
> e 3500M /usr
> f  500M   /tmp
> g  500M   /var
> h  4.5G     /home
> 
> For some strange reason it seems like NetBSD 1.6.1 wants the e partition 
> to be reserved for /usr and nothing else. 

More likely some of your partitions over-lapped in the above 
configuration.  I have a 1.6.2_STABLE i386 with '/usr' on the 
'f' partition.  No problem.

David S.

>