worked perfect!!!!!!!!

i've downloaded source (except xsrc which is being downloaded now),
compiled with one make build DESTDIR=... and with my /etc/mk.conf (to
force code generation for pentium, not 386/486, and link everything
dynamic), made tarball from it, got etc.tgz from ftp.netbsd.org for i386,
upgraded etc by hand to save the few files in which i made changes,
compiled kernel from my config for 1.5 (no changes), got to single-user,
cd /
tar --unlink -xzpvf <this_big_tarball>

and rebooted.

booted without problem with everything.

really no need to sysinst and other "user-friendly" things.

only 1 question:

Script started on Thu Jul 12 11:10:58 2001
# /etc/rc.d/sshd start
Starting sshd.
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#
Script done on Thu Jul 12 11:11:03 2001


what's the problem? i've tried to regenerate keys by deleting
/etc/ssh_host* , but still the same.

sshd.conf and ssh.conf is unchanged.