imuzik@geocities.co.jp

>came to this world cause debian doesn't suppor my machine
>but
>maybe i'm trying things on which is not supported yet in this world?
>
>have prepared the HDD "on" my PowerBook190(B/W) with pdisk68k
>and now have 2 partitions "Root&Usr" + "Swap" ready to get the
>NetBSD installed
>
>when i doubleclick the "Mkfs"
>it tries to search the scsi (?) but doesn't seem to look for the
>IDE(?) thing on the machine
>(when i pdisked the HDD on PB190 was recognized as "/dev/ata0.0")

Mkfs doesn't support IDE disks or disks on the second SCSI controller.  
You'll need to install on a SCSI disk or try using the Installation 
Kernel, but you'll need one with IDE support.

-bob