At 11:32 PM -0500 2/1/01, Josh Kuperman wrote:
>On following up. After the install completed this time, I just went
>into the booter and it started up with various message, but blew up on
>an illegal instruction trap.
>
>Should I be using a different kernel?

Well in general you should try the sbc kernel if the normal generic 
one has disk or scsi problems of any kind.

>What changes can I make without repeating the install process?


Not sure where the problem is from your description.  I would suggest 
you reformat the drive to only have three partitions:  small MacOS, 
NetBSD swap, and everything else in NetBSD /.  This will simplify 
your install procedure and reduce the chances of making mistakes 
while you are getting started.  I particular you can skip *all* the 
steps in the mini-shell.

Another change would be to just install the kernel, base and etc 
sets.  That should be enough you can boot single-user.  If you can 
get that far then you have passed most of the really hard 
installation problems and it's just normal Unix'ing.

Specifically you should do something like:

fsck -f /			# just to be safe
disklabel sd0			# could be different from installer's ideas
more /etc/fstab			# check that it's right
mount -a
mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt	# bob's distribution CD
cd /
tar zxvpf /mnt/..../comp.tgz
tar ...				# for each set
cd /etc
vi rc.conf
...				# look at the options available
shutdown -r now			# now see it all really work ;-)

Good luck.


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