On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 00:30, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> ...
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> Clock has gained 233 days - CHECK AND RESET THE DATE.
> root file system type: ffs
> </snip>
> 
> It seems to hang here.

Yup, I had this issue too on a 'real' VAX.

> When I use the 1.5.2 CD image (MD5 of my file is 
> 1fc841709dfeb456a32260cab6d6330a; same as in 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.5.2/MD5 ) I can proceed through 
> sysinst.
> 
> What is the best way to get 1.6.2 or the 2.0 beta/release\ candidate running 
> (use 1.5.2 to put the sets for newer version in place?)

What I did[0] was use the 1.6.1 installer to fetch the 1.6.2 sets. That
seemed to work fine, and was new enough to handle the slightly different
package names which the older 1.5.x installer would have  trouble with.

HTH

Matt

[0] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2004/07/15/0032.html