I was able to load and boot NetBSD 1.4.2. The only problem I had was during the
downloading to disk: I had to use FTP, because NFS was complaining about access
rights. After the installation was completed I was able to access the files
that were unavailable. Don't know why, maybe I made a mistake. The NFS server
is a Suse 6.2 Linux box.
It is needed to specify the root partition during the
boot, but this is a known problem.
Now I'm wrestling with the /etc directory, but  everything seems fine.

Thanks to all for providing such a cool operating system.

Alberto