So, for background information, the disk is a RD54 with no bad blocks
on it. I did disklabel /dev/ra0 and got the following:

# disklabel /dev/ra0
ra0: size 312375 sectors
# /dev/ra0c:
type: unknown
disk: myvax
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 17
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 255
cylinders: 1225
total sectors: 312375
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    32768        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 128*)
  b:    65536    32768       swap                        # (Cyl. 128*- 385*)
  c:   312375        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1224)
  e:   214071    98304     4.2BSD     1024  8192     0   # (Cyl. 385*- 1224)

This should be correct. I'm using 'e' partition only because it
happened to be /usr on the earlier installed NetBSD (1.2 something
iirc) and the sizes were correct already. I might try to repartition
the whole thing and then retry installing. But, if anyone happens to
have a recent ld.so binary somewhere, I'd like to have it mailed to my 
personal address, preferably uuencoded.

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