> which it does not expect.. like actually installing from something
> else than CDROM.  It is the pits.  I found the NetBSD scheme of
> starting a sh with a lightweight sysinst program a lot more sensible
> than that big fat buggy blob of one static C program which doesn't

for me no sysinst and just sh, tar, gzip , newfs etc.. would be enough for
installator. 

it's just few files to decompress