this is a common install problem. I had to go through the same thing on my
SE/30 with a 2-gig drive (but not on my IIci with a 1gig drive).
 
Do everything that is said in:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq-4.html#ss4.12

And when it talks about "cpin" it's pretty vague, this is how cpin works:
From the mini shell in the MacOS installer app, type
cpin "Hard Drive:My NetBSD folder:base.tgz" /base.tgz
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- change this to your actual MacOS
path to the installer *.tgz files.
 
Do the above step after you normally install base.tgz and the other *.tgz
files the regular way. Then boot into NetBSD, login as root, go to the
/ directory and type "tar --unlink -zxvpf /base.tgz" and everything should
be just fine.

ct

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Skeetter wrote:

> Hi All !
> 
> I hope I am posting this to the right place.
> 
> I am trying to install NetBSD 1.4.1 on my Mac SE/30.  This machine is
> equipped with 32 MB ( Mode 32 is ON and Virtual mem is OFF ), a Seagate
> ST32430N 2.1 GB hard drive, and an Ethernet card.
> 
> I originally had problems with the unit until I discovered that there was an
> extra FPU on the ethernet card....I yanked that out of the socket and now
> the MAC OS part of it seems to work great.
> 
> I am istalling from CD-Rom which is the only exterernal SCSI device in the
> system.  Everything is terminated correctly ( AFAIK ).
> 
> The hard drive has been partitioned into a 145 MB Mac OS 7.5.3 partition, a
> 300MB SWAP partition, and "ROOT & USR" is everything else....a curious thing
> though,....I used Apple's HD setup ( patched ) and I can't seem to get it to
> accept the last 11 meg of the last partition.    WIERD ?!
> 
> I have formatted all the partitions, and did the BUILD DEVICES thingy.
> 
> Up to this point, everthing has gone fine....then I start to install
> BASE.TGZ.  I get about 3/4 through the install, then the system starts
> having problems....I get this error message:
> 
> 
> --------- snip--------
> Error on ScsiRead(),    #5
> Error on ScsiWrite(),    #5
> Error on ScsiRead(),    #5
> Error on ScsiRead(),    #5
> Error on ScsiWrite(),    #5
> Error on ScsiRead(),    #5
> pos = 0 , i = 60 , fs = 1
> alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
> --------- snip--------
> 
> After this, ....it's all over but the shouting.
> 
> I have also repeated the whole install again ( including the partitioning
> step ), except I copied all of the install files onto the MAC OS partition
> so I could eliminate the CD-Rom as a source of the problem.......the same
> error occured.
> 
> I have sucessfully done an install on my IIci.....20Megs ram and 700 MB hard
> drive,...so I can't understand what I am doing wrong.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.  THANKS !!!!
> 
> SKEETTER ( Jon C. )
>