I tried to do something "not in the book" last night and ran into
a slight wall.  As I've previously related, I have that bogus
Adaptec 2842 VL bus SCSI card which I can't use yet.  I grabbed a
Maxtor (345) IDE drive in order to install 1.1 or 1.2 and test
patches to get the SCSI card functioning.

I put an MS-DOS partition on the drive so that I could download
the tarfiles using MS-Kermit.  I can mount_msdos floppy drives,
but not the DOS hard drive partition.  Disklabel -e died with
"/usr/bin/vi not found"...

I thought I could grab vi from my system at work, but that croaked
with a "no ld.so" message.  I'm building some "static" binaries
and will try again, but perhaps those building the 1.2 distributions
will create a similar static "tools" diskette to load binaries onto
the NetBSD partition to assist others like me in copying the full
distribution tarfiles. Vi, cpio and some other basic utilities
would be great to have handy.

Thanks, as always.
-- 
I don't speak (or work) for the Baltimore County Public Library.
They keep telling me, "Shhhhh!"