Scott> partition, is there something I can do to trim down the files in the 
Scott> root? (The file "netbsd" does seem fairly large.)  Would customizing 

Have your /home, /tmp, /var in /usr directory.
Copy those to /usr/home, /usr/tmp, /usr/var
and symlink from the root.
You can live with those setup for a while.

I think default 32MBytes partition is too small anyway.
I presume the size will be the smaller value out of
100MByte or 1/5 of total disk size.
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Makoto Fujiwara,