On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bob Nestor wrote:

> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> There are a number of issues with Mkfs and the Installer.  Both do a
> very poor job of dealing with I/O errors.  You really should try the 1.6
> Installation Kernel and use the Sysint Method for installing the
> system.  If it works then you've isolated the problem to the MacOS
> utilities which you no longer need since you've completed the NetBSD
> installation.  If it gives you the similar types of errors that would
> suggest you have problems with your disk and/or SCSI chain.

I second that. Be sure to use the 1.6* sysinstall and snapshot,
as Bob fixed some bugs that will still be present in the older
development snapshots (such as 1.5ZA).

Frederick