I would like to be able to access the netbsd USR
partition (the only netbsd partition) on a zip
drive which is attached to a NetBSD-less mac.
The idea is to use a mac attached to a fast network
connection to download stuff, use the installer to
copy to the zip drive, then take it home and just
be able to mount the drive from netbsd.

right now the installer says something like "no root
partition, fatal error"

Any thoughts?  Is there something fundamental about the
file system which prevents this from working?

Dan