>
> This causes a host of difficulties. Without network access, I cannot use
> pkgsrc in the traditional manner. I can manually copy the tar.gz files into
> my distfiles directory. This is a slow process because I need to reboot into
> WindowsXP and download into a shared data partition (mounted as /mnt/data in
> netBSD) and then reboot back into NetBSD to continue.

you can use pppd and serial interface. but of course it's not the
solution!