# 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"...

So why not 

	# EDITOR=/bin/ed export EDITOR; disklabel -e

...?

This is much easier than:

# 
# 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.