On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:54:24AM -0000, Koestler, Sonja (IT Man.) wrote:
> 
> then I go on "get distribution" and press "enter". The error message
> follows immediately (therefore I can't say on which point it fails); I
> even can't connect to the ftp server.
> All the steps before were without errors/problems. I also checked the
> network card, it runs under DOS. 

The message you are seeing indicates that ftp (as executed by sysinst)
terminated with a bad exit value. Perhaps DNS isn't set up right?
Or somehow the ethernet card didn't get initialized OK. Maybe you
could exit sysinst at this point (just interrupt or suspend it),
and check by hand if the ec0 interface is up (ifconfig ec0), or
if you can reach ftp.netbsd.org by just trying it from the shell.

- Frank