Hello,

I am not sure why the installer cannot access your filesystems.  I just
do a manual install from a NetBSD/i386 system with a USB CF reader.
The card shows up as wd0 on hpcmips and sd1 on my USB reader.  It goes
something like this:
  newfs -O 2 /dev/sd1a
  mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
  cd /mnt
  for set in /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/rel/hpcmips/binary/sets/*.tgz
  do
    pax -r -v -z -p e -f $set
  done
  cp /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/obj/sys/arch/hpcmips/compile/MOBY/netbsd .
  cd dev
  sh MAKEDEV all
  cd ../etc
  echo "/dev/sd1a / ffs rw,noatime,softdep 1 1" >>fstab
  echo "rc_configured=YES" >>rc.conf
  cd /
  umount /mnt
  mount -t msdos /dev/sd1e /mnt
  cp /build/3.0/work/hpcmips/rel/hpcmips/installation/hpcboot.exe /mnt
  umount /mnt

Cheers,

Ben

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:23:11PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote:
> Hello all.  I am trying to install netBSD 2.0.2 onto a MobilePro 780. 
> The only network adapter I have is a Proxim Orinoco Silver PCMCIA,
> which is not recognized, so network installation is not an option.
> 
> I have a 120 mb MSDOS partition on a CompactFlash card (its 1gb, the
> rest is netBSD partition), which I load the installer from and also
> have the precompiled sets and kernel-Generic on.  Unfortunately, I am
> unable to mount the msdos filesystem from the installer, and cannot
> access the sets or kernel-generic.  I have tried "mount -t msdos
> /dev/wd0e /mnt2", but it says: "mount_msdos: /dev/wd0e on mnt2:
> Invalid argument".
> 
> (wd0e is my msdos partition)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> elijah