I think that happened to me to just two days ago. Figured it was
my own fault somehow. I re-did from floppies via FTP and all went
well. But I had two/three weeks ago built onto a ThinkPad from
CD-ROM with no problems at all. I am sure though that I did NOT
elect to view all the files being downloaded.

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <200301132247.h0DMlSN03684@nucleus.styrophone.net>,
> Tyler M. Mitchell <fission@nucleus.styrophone.net> wrote:
> 
> I just did a 1.6 install from CDROM and observed the same problem. This
> is high priority and should be fixed for 1.6.1
> 
> christos
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I installed NetBSD 1.6 via FTP (with sysinst) and selected "Full install."
>>When I rebooted, I found that several sets (games, man, misc, text, xbase,
>>xfont) were missing.  The sets that were installed (such as base, comp, etc.)
>>seem to be complete and missing nothing.  I did select the option to show
>>the list of files as they were extracted, and it seemed to be extracting fine
>>up until it finished, at which point sysinst told me that the sets had all
>>been unpacked successfully.
>>
>>I can't really test sysinst on this machine again (I have limited physical
>>access to it) but was just wondering whether anyone else had experienced this
>>before.  It wasn't a really big deal for me to extract the missing sets, but
>>it would be nice to know that they weren't extracted.
>>
>>I should mention that I used the default /usr/INSTALL directory when downloading
>>the files, and that my /usr slice is 6GB, and freshly-formatted by sysinst.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-- 
>>Tyler Mitchell