> 
> I've managed to get the "inst-11.fs" onto my swap drive and
> get the install message etc to come up by mounting BH3: which
> is my swap drive and typing;
> 
> loadbsd -b -A bh3:netbsd
> 
> But when I'm asked for the root> and I type SD1 it scrolls this 
> message;
> 

If you have just dumped the installation fs to the swap partition then you 
should specify sd1* as the root. This will tell your kernel to use this temp
filesystem in the swap partition as the root rather that the partition you 
have actually set as root.

This is what you want.

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