anatol wrote:
> > This is answered in the FAQ.  
> Sorry I've read A LOT lately but obviously have not found the fix.  

it's somewhere in the installation section.
 
> > The basic problem is that the older 4.3BSD
> > fs code in the Installer doesn't seem to handle writing to cylinders that
> > lie beyond the 1GB mark on a disk.  To get around this, you can either:
> > 
> > 1) make sure your NetBSD partition lies (more or less) entirely within the
> >    first 1 GB of your disk and re-install,
> My disk is only 495MB!

hmmmm....

> > 2) install netbsd.tgz, etc.tgz, and as much of base.tgz as you can and
> >    then finish the install from within NetBSD (assuming that you managed
> >    to install tar ;-)
> 
> I did get a useful installation once, but the fs was corrupt anyways so I 
> couldn't do anything useful with the fear of having everything wiped 
> away.

have you had any problems with this disk under MacOS?  what kind of disk
is it?  i don't recall too many people have problems with disks that were
under 1GB in size, so that's why i'm asking.

-colin