In message <1733201485.20050926142936@gmx.net>, uhel writes:
>Hi,
>
>>>> You mean you are using a floppy to boot a machine
>>>> then you install using FTP ?
>>>
>>> yes
>
>> Good. That's the method I usually use myself : I boot
>> on the two floppies and directly install using FTP.
>> Should work just fine.
>
>>> Yes, but I think the package misc.tgz is good. I try to ftp
>>> program to download it from another machine but I can't.
>
>> If you cannot download this package, something is wrong.
>
>[...]
>
>are you sure about that? I checkt a few mirrors from the list of
>NetBSD mirrors e.g.:
>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/200509210000Z/i386/binary/sets/
>but there is no misc.tgz.
>
>There are some mirrors which seem to have one e.g.:
>ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/200509210000Z/shared/ALL/
>but if you use ls -l you only see a sym-link:
>misc.tgz -> ../../../shared/ALL/misc.tgz
>but .../shared/All is an empty directory.
>
>That leads me to the question: Does NetBSD 3 include a package named
>misc.tgz or is there only an old entry on the floppies?
>

When I built NetBSD 3.0 from source on Sept 9, there was indeed a 
misc.tgz.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb