Because i seemed to have been having problemswith my netbsd 
installation i have gone backto scratch to install everything except 
for partitioning my h/d.  

I tried using inst-12/fs as the rootdisk image and i got as far as 
trying to install the base set when i kept getting an error 'egrep 
not found'.  I have gone back to using inst-11 and it has been able 
to install base from 1.2 release.

I just hope my other problems have gone away ;o)

Cheers,

  Duncs.