Patrick,

Whatever you did, it worked.  The machine is happily creating new
filesystems now on the SCSI drives.

Just for my edification, what did you change?

Thanks very much!

Nancy


On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:55:03 +0100, "Patrick Welche"
<prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> said:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:41:51AM -0400, Nancy E. Davis wrote:
> > I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2650 on which I'm trying to install NetBSD. 
> > The installation script fails to find drives.  I have tried the
> > installation boot cd from NetBSD 1.6.1, NetBSD with KAME 1.6.1, NetBSD
> > 1.6.2 and NetBSD with KAME 1.6.2.
> 
> Could you try booting from floppies made from
> 
> ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200405260000/i386/installation/floppy/boot1.fs
> ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200405260000/i386/installation/floppy/boot2.fs
> 
> ?   /kern/msgbuf   contains the boot messages..
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick