I just had the same experience on a IIci... apparently traditional
install is DOA for 3.x... though it takes much longer, it is helpful
for those of us with limited disk. sysinst avoided these issues for
me... but I did see a number of others following install:

1. illegal instruction (protection fault) running vi was a showstopper
2. panic on reboot or halt prevents clean shutdown
3. rc.conf not being read correctly.
4. sn0 (Apple Ethernet NB) still does not seem to work.

I've had to get back to 2.1 to be functional again. Has anyone managed
to get around these, or get X working on 3.x?

Andrew

On 12/31/06, Sungwon Chung <lucky.cimon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2006 00:32:22 Nuno wrote
>
> >
> > Yesterday I've tested 3.1 on a SE/30:
> >
> > - sysinst do the partition work ok but fails with network card
> > configuration/detection and is impossible to install the os.
> >
> > - traditional method: after installation I get the error: "panic:
> > init not found"
> >
>
> * Reason for SE/30 and Classic II
>
> Kernel 3.x cannot read/write to the
> file system created by Mkfs/mac68k utility,
> although the kernel 3.x can see the name of
> files in this file system. So, the traditional
> install method never work with NetBSD 3.
>
> I am not sure about the reason. But it is true
> that a file system created by Mkfs/mac68k
> is different from a file system created by
> NetBSD 3. And the Install/mac68k utility
> cannot access a file system created by NetBSD 3.
>
> The simplest solution may be using sysinst
> with SCSI CD-ROM or network. The following
> work-around is for those who do not have SCSI CD-ROM
> or LAN card with SE/30 or Classic II.
>
>
> * Work-around
>
> 1. In MacOS 7 on SE/30 or Classic II
>
>    A. create 3 NetBSD partitions
>
>       For example,
>
>       sd0a: root&usr (800 MB) <--- for NetBSD system
>       sd0b: swap     (100 MB)
>       sd0g: tmp      (100 MB) <--- for temporary usage
>
>    B. In MacOS, run Mkfs for sd0a and sd0g
>
>    C. In MacOS, run Install utility and copy *.tgz to sd0g
>
> 2. Boot with NetBSD 3.1 install kernel (netbsd-INSTALL/SBC)
>
>    A. Run /bin/sh from utility menu
>
>       # newfs /dev/rsd0a
>
>    B. reboot
>
>
> 3. Boot with NewBSD 2.1 install kernel (netbsd-INSTAL/SBC)
>
>    A. Run /bin/sh from utility menu
>
>       # mount /dev/rsd0a /mnt
>       # mount /dev/rsd0g /mnt2
>       # cd /mnt
>       # tar -zxhepvf /mnt2/base.tgz  <--- repeat for all sets
>
>       # cd /mnt/dev
>       # ./MAKEDEV all
>
>    B. manually write /etc/fstab file
>
>       For example
>
>       # cd /mnt/etc
>       # cat > fstab
>       /dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1
>       /dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
>       kernfs /kern kernfs rw
>
>    C. reboot
>
> 4. In MacOS 7,
>
>    A. Boot the netbsd 3.1
>
>       (Install utility cannot access the NetBSD file system
>        created by 3.1 install kernel, but boot utility
>        can access it !)
>
> Happy new year,
> Sungwon Chung
>