Hi,

Could you let me know what versions of installer and mkfs you were using??
Hopefully the latest versions were used.  I assume that the Seagate Hawk
is a 1GB or 2GB drive judging from the partition sizes you used.  Many
people have reported problems with 2GB drives, but only in the install 
itself and not in the mountfs.  Some of the problems do tend to depend
on the partition sizes and order.  What order were the partitions created in??
How many other partitions existed on the drive??  Can you send me the lines
that you omitted below(i.e. the ones starting with sd0a..., etc.)?? -
basically the lines equivalent to the disklabel command.  Those will really
help me debug a little better.

Thanks,
Steve Brown
sbrown@best.com

> Hi, I had an error when launching the mac68k Installer.  I downloaded the 
> entire contents of the netbsd mac68k directory, version 1.3.  I formatted 
> three partitions of a Seagate Hawk drive as follows:
>
> Root, approx 100MB
> Usr, approx 500MB
> swap, approx 60MB
>
> and converted them with mkfs to the correct types.  When I run the 
> installer, I get something like this, after selecting the Seagate as my 
> drive:
>
> sd0a...etc etc
> ...
> ...
> and then:
>
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> Error on SCSIRead(), #5
> failed mountfs(), error 22.
> Error mounting root.
> mount root. : undefined error: 0
>
> then my computer crashes (gives me an option to restart)
>
> My computer is one that is supported, a Performa 550 with 21MB RAM, 
> System 7.6.  Thanks for any help you could provide.
>
>
>
> -Bobby Cox
> iteration@worldnet.att.net
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