Subject: Re: initializing a NetBSD boot block from Linux?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: George Michaelson <ggm@pobox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/21/2007 15:00:54 
NAMP image, in a VMWare free server. boot it enough to get the stage-1
boot from the .iso image, then you can single-user boot off the drive
and re init its MBR as normal from single-user.

its about 200M of download alas

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/636

-G