Here's a message, posted on the newsgroups, from someone else having
difficulty installing NetBSD-pmax.

------- Forwarded Message

hoopoe.psc.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06839 for <peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu>
; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:22:10 -0500 (EST)
oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA23329 for 
<peterb@oberon.ckp.edu>; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:22:05 -0500
nydick)
	id AA04967; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:22:04 -0500
for peterb@psc.edu; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:22:07 -0500 (EST)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:22:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Berger <peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu>
Message-Id: <199602170122.UAA06835@hoopoe.psc.edu>
To: peterb@psc.edu

Path: balrog.ckp.edu!news.psc.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeed.
pitt.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.montana.edu!eri
cm
From: ericm@math.montana.edu (Eric McWhorter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: install NetBSD on pmax
Date: 16 Feb 1996 21:57:34 GMT
Organization: Math Sciences, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <4g2uke$fu@news.oscs.montana.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mathfs.math.montana.edu

I've attempted to install NetBSD on a decstation with
no success.

I've tried numerous permutations of the directions, but what
I think should have worked was:

I put the disk on a decstation 5000/120 running ULTRIX 4.3.
I compiled disklabel with gcc 2.5.8, moved bootrz and rzboot
to /usr/mdec and ran disklabel as such:

./disklabel -B /dev/rrz3c
  (some warning about no disk label)
./disklabel -B -R /dev/rrz3c rz24

Now, if I run ./disklabel -r /dev/rrz3c it looks good.  I then
did the dd:

dd if=./miniroot of=/dev/rrz3c seek=16

the disklabel is still in tact.  So, I didn't clobber it.

However, the resultant disk is NOT bootable on a decstation 
5000/133 or a 2100.  Anyone get this beast to work?

A friend tried labeling the disk from a macintosh running NetBSD
but that didn't work either.  Both machines will boot ULTRIX and
I'm certain I have the boot rom environment variable set correctly.

Help!?
- -- 
Eric McWhorter                     2-207 Wilson Hall, MSU, Bozeman, MT 59717
Math Sciences                      (406)994-1788
Montana State University           ericm@math.montana.edu

------- End of Forwarded Message