Hello,

I have got a 2GB external HDD for NetBSD-1.3RELEASE and
tried to install on it but I haven't been able to.

With "Apple HD SC Setup(A/UX)",I set up  partitions like 
following:
  swap = about 150MB 
  /    = about 50MB
  /var = about 150MB
  /var/spool/news = about 300MB
  /usr = about 600MB
  /home = rest of above.

In Mkfs,I met an "unallocated" warning only when formatting "/home"
partiton which is at the bottom of the HDD. 

Because "SCSIRead()" error occurred when I used installer,
I planned to install from an internal HDD on which 
NetBSD-1.3BETA is already installed.

Mounting external HDD(sd0),"df -k" shows strange values:
  # df -k
  Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/sd2a     1074436   846725   120267    88%    /
  kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
  procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
  mfs:125         31631       21    30028     0%    /tmp
  /dev/sd0a      193246   154533    19388    89%    /mnt
  /dev/sd0g      338189   193426   110944    64%    /mnt/var
  /dev/sd0d      628092   338198   227084    60%    /mnt/var/spool/news
  /dev/sd0e     1304553   668780   505317    57%    /mnt/usr
  /dev/sd0f     2041830  1304562   533085    71%    /mnt/home

  # ls -lAR /mnt/home
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  8192 Dec  4  1931 lost+found

  /mnt/home/lost+found:
  # 

Anyway, I installed files like this:
  # cd /mnt
  # tar -zxvpf $(dir)/base.tgz
  ...

After booting from the external HDD in "single user mode",
I wanted to vi /etc/rc.conf:
  # mount /
  # mount /var
  # mount /usr
  # vi /etc/rc.conf
  ex/vi Error: unknown : No such file or directory

"Dmesg" of 1.3BETA on the internal HDD says:
  NetBSD 1.3_BETA (ASURA04) #0: Tue Dec 23 01:49:38 PST 1997
      quadra@asuka:/home/quadra/work/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/ASURA04
  Apple Macintosh Quadra 800  (68040)
  cpu: delay factor 400
  real mem = 109051904
  avail mem = 103444480
  using 204 buffers containing 835584 bytes of memory
  mrg: 'Quadra/Centris ROMs' ROM glue, tracing off, debug off, silent\
   traps
  mrg: I/O map kludge for ROMs that use hardware addresses directly.
  ......(snip).......
  sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <IBM, DORS-32160, WA6A> SCSI2 0/direct\
   fixed
  sd0: 2063MB, 6703 cyl, 5 head, 126 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4226725\
   sectors
  cd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8003A, 1.8f> SCSI2\
   5/cdrom removable
  sd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <EPSON, OMD-6020, 141C> SCSI2\
   7/optical removable
  sd1: drive offline
  sd2 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1280S, 630G> SCSI2\
   0/direct fixed
  sd2: 1222MB, 4135 cyl, 4 head, 151 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2503872\
   sectors


Would you please tell me what I should do?

Shunsuke Masuda