Yep tried that on a couple of little endian machines (FreeBSD/Intel and
Alpha/OSF/1)
Refused to mount.  However booting the netbsd-GENERIC_MD kernel  instead
of the netbsd kernel did the trick!

Thanks to Cliff Crawford for the above info.

Dan Winship wrote:

> > Just a guess: dd the boot floppy image to a floppy (on the FreeBSD box),
> > mount the floppy on the FreeBSD box and you'll find sysinst on it...
>
> I doubt that will work, because of endianness issues. (But if you had
> another big-endian NetBSD box, or a little-endian one with FFSEI
> enabled in the kernel it should work.)
>
> -- Dan