>Questions-
>
>Is booting boot.fs giving me a more rudimentary sysinst program which does
>not have the functionality that netbsd.ram has?

No, it is supposed to be same like the one in the netbsd.ram kernel. 
Unfortunatly, at the moment sysinst doesn=B4t support the option to use 
part of the disk as mentioned in the intall.txt file.

I don=B4t know why it is still said in this text?

Also, you can boot the installer kernel from your hfs-partition using 
hfsboot, which you can find on the site mentioned in the next 
sentence.


>Is there a way to install NetBSD which does not utilize sysinst?

Yep, Makoto Fujiwara has created a really cool page on installing 
NetBSD by hand. Have look under 
http://www.ki.nu/software/NetBSD/iBook2/
It helped me a lot for installing NetBSD on my PB G3 with an existing 
Mac OS 9 on a HFS+ partition.

Cheers, Chris