Oh, sorry, I have no idea.  Did you try the regular INSTALL 
kernel?  Maybe that would work.

Cheers

bruce

p.s. I added port-mac68k to the CC in hopes someone else might
know...

Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:56:22 +0200
> From: Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net>
> Subject: Sysinst seems broken for PB150
> To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> content-length: 5028
> 
> There are problems though.
> msdos under bsd shows with the 8.3 naming, so kernels are not 
> recognized by installer (longer names get funny short names as: 
> !kern-03.tg0 and such).
> 
> 
> When sysinst reaches the point of looking for the tgz files, I indicate 
> "unmounted file system"
> Then I say:
> Device wd0e (my msdos partition)
> file system: msdos
> directory: / (all tgz are right at the root of that msdos partition)
> 
> Then I see that /dev/wdoe mounts on /mnt2
> 
> After that it complains /mnt2///kern-GENERIC.tgz does not exist 
> (because the 8.3 naming problem)
> 
> Then tar -zxvepf /mnt2///base.tgz starts, but stops right after 
> extracting ./dev/fd with a message:
> [1]	Illegal instruction (core dumped) sysinst
>   a "df" shows that /dev/wd0a is mounted as /targetroot and /dev/wd0g as 
> /targetroot/usr, being 7% and 8% full respectively
> 
> At that point I can see the # for the prompt but my input is not shown, 
> although the commands are understood !!??
> 
> I guess I could hand-copy the tgz files to a local directory in BSD 
> partition and tar -zxvepf everything from there?
> But I would rather use the installer, that is what it was made for in 
> the first place right?
> 
> Regards
> 
> El 20/05/2004, a las 11:40, Bruce O'Neel escribi„:
> 
> > I had never thought about using MS-DOS for this, but, of course, it
> > works.  I end up using some other system and nfs for installs and I
> > use MacOS only to boot the mac68k systems.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > bruce
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:35:04AM +0200, 
> > GERARDOALVAREZ@telefonica.net wrote:
> >> Really? Thanks!
> >> Or is there another partition format that can be used to share
> >> documents (mountable read/write) between the Mac OS and the BSD OSs?
> >> Maybe a CD-ROM, although I don«t have an external SCSI unit.
> >> I am using the msdos partition system because it seems a pretty
> >> straigthforward way to go, but I am open to suggestions...
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Mensaje Original -----
> >> De: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> >> Fecha: Jueves, Mayo 20, 2004 10:34 am
> >> Asunto: Re: Softfloat build of Beta 2.0 from 16/5/2004
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> No, the INST030FPE kernel does not have MSDOS enabled.  I'll build 
> >>> one
> >>> for you though...
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>>
> >>> bruce
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Gerardo Alvarez wrote:
> >>>> The install kernel boots OK, partitions OK (it used to hang
> >>> there,
> >>>> possibly because of the FPE thing). Great ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> But then mount_msdos /dev/wd0e /mnt2 gives an "operation not
> >>> supported
> >>>> by device" error which I didn«t have in 1.6.2.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a big IDE disk in the PB150, with a 125 MB DOS partition,
> >>> which
> >>>> I mount in Mac OS and copy all the distribution sets there, and
> >>> then I
> >>>> mount later in BSD to grab that distribution for the installer.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does the install kernel (030FPE) support MSDOS partition mounting?
> >>>>
> >>>> If not, I am a bit out of luck, since I can«t access the
> >>> distribution
> >>>> sets any other way (the Mac OS installer does not "see" HFS
> >>> partitions
> >>>> right?)
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>>
> >>>> El 19/05/2004, a las 16:22, Bruce ONeel escribi„:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It *should* work...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cheers
> >>>>>
> >>>>> bruce
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:22:19 +0200
> >>>>>> From: Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net>
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Softfloat build of Beta 2.0 from 16/5/2004
> >>>>>> To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> >>>>>> Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> >>>>>> content-length: 996
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Should I give it a shot with my Powerbook 150?
> >>>>>> It is a 60830 no FPU with 24 Mb RAM
> >>>>>> I will try right away
> >>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> El 18/05/2004, a las 11:22, Bruce O'Neel escribiã:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The above build from the tar files is at
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ftp://lain.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-release-2.0-
> >>> mac-
> >>>>>>> softfloat
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Per usual it has been tested by loading on two different
> >>> Powerbook> >>>540c machines.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Btw, the list has been very quiet.  Has anyone tried either the
> >>>>>>> regular builds or the softfloat builds?  The time to test is
> >>> now and
> >>>>>>> not 2 days after the release announcement for 2.0 :-) For
> >>> what it's
> >>>>>>> worth it seems stable so I don't think you'd be risking much to
> >>>>>>> upgrade.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The most recent official build is (I believe) at:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200405100000/
> >>>>>>> mac68k/
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks again to John Klos for CPU, diskspace, and network
> >>> bandwith.> >>>
> >>>>>>> cheers
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> bruce
> >>>>>>> -- 
> >>>>>>> edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org
> >>>>>>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org
> >>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > -- 
> > edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org
> > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> >