wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com

>How can I tell the Installation kernel to skip over my HFS partitions when
>formatting. I tried the Install kernel from 1.5, and after creating by
>NetBSD Root&Usr and Swap, it moved on to the partitioning phaze and spit
>in my face by beginning to format my MacOS part. :(
>
What do you mean when you say it spit in your face?  Did it format an HFS 
partition or tell you that it couldn't and abort the installation?  It 
shouldn't have done a format on an HFS partition but it should have 
complained and aborted without doing any damage to the MacOS side.

>I haven't seen any mailing list posts in the archives about this, neither
>have I found much documentation on the Install kernel (I may be looking in
>the wrong places), so I'm quite unsure of what to do. I get a bit tired of
>doing that > 1gb MacOS Installer workaround.

Because of a problem associated with the BSD in-core label the 
Installation Kernel can't partition the disk and then proceed with an 
installation of NetBSD without rebooting between the partition phase and 
the installation phase.  As for documentation on the Installation Kernel 
method of installation, you can find it at:

  ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/INSTALL.html
  ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/INSTALL.more
  ftp://murphy.dydnns.org/pub/sysinst/INSTALL.ps
  ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/INSTALL.txt

-bob