On 21 Sep 2002, MLH wrote:
 > On 20 Sep 2002 08:00:01 -0500, Ryo HAYASAKA wrote:
 > > In message <200209191939.g8JJdGw06548@s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
 > > Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> wrote:
 > >
 > >> >  > I've also experienced this segfault issue installing both 1.6
 > >> >  > and current into a VMWare virtual machine.  It seems to be
 > >> >  > occurring on man.tgz for me.  However 1.5.3 will still install
 > >> >  > without a problem.
 > >
 > > I have also experienced this on my i386 note pc, and this is 100%
 > > reproduceable.
 >
 > Maybe check this out... We think it has something to do with how
 > the disk is partitioned. We were trying to use a bootloader, so
 > had partitioned the drive and were trying to install NetBSD in one
 > of the partitions. When installing without a bootloader or using
 > other values for the bios's understanding of the drive size and
 > then partitioning, 1.6 installed fine.
 >
 > We are going to look into this further next week, but there's a
 > repeatable pattern here.