In message <1079.904320044@eterna.com.au>, matthew green writes:
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>it should boot to a menu of install, shell, halt, where install will
>run sysinst, like previously, only now it should almost fully work!

A couple more quirks:

When doing a custom installation of distributions, sysinst prints:

  I found only one disk, sd0.  Therefore I will assume you want to (null)
  NetBSD on it.

And it's not possible to un-select the 'X programming' set-- it
appears that both options 'h' and 'i' are mapped to 'X11 Servers', and
option 'j' is mapped to 'X11 Contrib' instead of 'X programming'.