> 
> yes it's a quantum fireball 1.2 gbyte I already tried 5 time but every time
> I have to reinstall everything ( it crashes my all HD )

So it's larger than 1,073,741,824 bytes? Where were you placing the
NetBSD partitions on the drive? Was the root partition at the end of
the drive? When you say "it crashes all my HD" you mean the drive looses
its partiton info after installing? So you have to totally reformat?

If yes, then you NEED to do one of two things. 1) repartition your drive
so that all the NetBSD stuff the installer will touch (the root partition
mainly) is in the lower 1.07 billion bytes. Or 2) get the version of the
installer patched for big drives (1.1? 1.2? Bob, did you get to fix it
yet?).

The installer and mkfs both had a bug which made them not work right on
drives larger than 2^21 sectors (2^20 K, or 1,073,741,824 bytes). If you
ever tried to use them to write to area above 2^20 K, they wrapped the
write to the lower 2^20 K. So they would blindly overwrite disk drivers,
partition tables, etc.

Bob Nestor has patched MkFS to take care of the problem, and was planning
to work on the installer too (it's a simple patch).

I hope this helps.

Take care,

Bill