Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>I'm willing to bet you have a drive larger than 1GB. This happened to me
>as well. Here's the install process I used for 1.4.2, which should work for
>1.5 (waiting for Bob to say where it won't :-):
>
>* Reformat the drive with mkfs. (Yes, wipe it out again.)
>
>* Go to the Installer and run Build Devices *before* you do anything else.
>
>* Install kern.tgz as far as it will go (it should install all the way).
>  If you get an error at this point, you really *are* hosed.
>
>* Install base.tgz as far as it will go. Then, go to the mini-shell and
>  cpin base.tgz to the root directory. cpin any other .tgz files at this
>  point as well (you can try installing them if you like, but I didn't
>  try).
>
>* Go to the Booter and start up NetBSD.
>  You should be dumped into single user mode.
>
>* Mount the filesystem(s) if they aren't already as read-write.
>
>* Now, gunzip and tar xvpf those .tgzs in your root directory. This should
>  finish your install the rest of the way.

Excellent description of the work-around process!  It should work with 
any version of NetBSD.

The other option is use the sysinst method since you already have your 
partitions.  It won't install from files on the HFS/HFS+ disk partition 
though but it can install from a CDROM or a network connection.

-bob