David Walker wrote:
>I have made maybe 50 phone calls as everytime I try something I have to
>reboot and lose my connection (I have a dual boot with windows). Oh, and I
>don't have a printer so I write all this stuff down.
>I have been trying for 4 days (about 40 hours) to install netbsd and get a
>shell.

My suggestions:

1) If you have a spare computer, set it up with a terminal program 
that records what is typed.
2) Don't connect to the phone line until you have everything else up & working.

Dan Killoran