Thanks to the list, esp. to Manuel Bouyer and Thilo, that gave me the answer to
my question.

The problem was, that I didn't understand the special drive mapping in i386. I
had not realized, that in i386 the DOS partitions are not of interest to NetBSD
despite the slice dedicated to NetBSD. The special mapping are:

NetBSD    | purpose
partition |
----------+-------------------------
c         | maps the whole slice dedicated to NetBSD (i.e of type 169)
d         | maps the whole disk

Thats why changing the d partition in my first attempt yielded to the result
that the a partiton was overwritten by the d partition.

Now I'm using (NetBSD) partition a b e ! And, as expected - it works great.

Thanks again.

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