>Sounds to me like you didn't install the kernel.  There is a separate
>kernel .tgz file for the kernel, since for many versions of NetBSD there
>are more than one version of the kernel in the standard mac68k
>distribution.  You need to install the one appropriate for your system.

I am sure that I did install the kernel, there were two files:
    
    netbsd-GENERIC.gz
    netbsd-GENERICSBC.gz

Maybe (I can't remember) I installed both, could that cause my problem?

Can I re-install just the kernel (without doing anything else) or should I
re-initialise the partitions etc etc again?

Can you use the installer to install a new package/binary after you have the
system up & running without destroying what is already there?  Eg I want to
install Apache.

Cheers,

Wayne

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