>ok, people keep talking about this miniroot.. I've looked at 
>ftp.netbsd.org in arch/pmax and only find the binaries, packages & tools, 
>which I actively ftp'd.  Where is the miniroot mentioned? (as I don't 

See:

ftp://gregorio.stanford.edu/pub/NetBSD/pmax

I guess I should get access to ftp.netbsd.org, or whatever it's
shadowing, or *something...