On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:00  pm, Randy Beaudreault wrote:

>> On another note, I had some difficulty installing 1.5 on this machine, 
>> as
>> the Installer apparently doesn't support partitions greater than 500 
>> MB. It
>> will install on a 1 GB or a 2 GB partition, but running fsck after 
>> booting
>> shows a terribly corrupted file system. The 1.5.1 Installer shows the 
>> same
>> behavior. I ended up creating 500 MB partitions for root, /var, and 
>> /usr in
>> order to install, and using the remaining 2.5 GB on the root disk for
>> nothing in particular. Is this a well-known limitation of the 
>> Installer?
>>
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> I don't have much to say about the begining of your mail, but I have 
> something to say about the last paragraph.  I recently changed the hd 
> in my Q800 to a 4GB Barracuda and discovered interesting issues when 
> installing NetBSD on it.  The installer chokes on big installs, > 1GB, 
> which I overcame by installing using sysinst (the install notes are 
> available via FTP from Bob Nestor's site: 
> ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/ is the directory).  Next issue I 
> had was booter problems when I put my partitions on the last half of 
> the drive under Drive Setup (under OS 8.1).  When I put the partitions 
> for NetBSD first the booter worked fine.

Hi,

Note also that the 1.5.2 release dir has the netbsd-INSTALL.gz kernel, 
so whilst the one from Bob's site may work, it is preferential to get 
the one from 
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.2/mac68k/installation/instkernel/
 >, since it will probably be newer.

Take care,

~ Matthew