Helo Dale:

> I get a segmentation fault stating that the root filesystem "/" is full.
>  I'm trying find some documentation to explain this.   I have a hard
> drive with no hfs or apple partition map partitions on it.  This drive
> was clean before the install.  I want to run pdisk to get the
> ofwboot.xcf file onto the hard drive.

May be pdisk tries to make sense from random data that is on the disk.
Try pdisk with -ci arguments and then create a new map

pdisk won't get the ofwboot file on the disk. If you plan to make the
machine boot only NetBSD you can make a small hfs partition > 800kByte
(see man hformat) and after installation of the Install CD install
/pkgsrc//sysutils/hfsutils/

This will allow you format the hfs partition mount it and copy
ofwboot.xcf to it (all commands prepended with a h ).
In my installation I did afterwards use hattrib to
a- change the attribute of ofwboot.xcf to exec
b- mark the whole volume (:) as bootable, or bless in apple-speak
   (hattrib -b : )
I'm not sure which of the two is neccessary, but before openfirmware
ignored the ofwboot file.

for the intermediat reboot something like >boot cd:\ofwboot.xcf
 hd:<your root partition number goes here>/netbsd
should work.

Rudi

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