So, I managed to pick up a Performa 6360 (PowerPC 603ev, 136MB) for a  
good price. I struggled a bit to get it to boot (finally having  
success with a floppy disk). For some reason I didn't have luck  
booting 3.0 install floppies (``READ TIMEOUT'' errors), so on a whim  
I wrote a 1.5.3 floppy disk. Installed fine.

At this point I downloaded a -current netbsd-INSTALL.gz to the hard  
disk, and booted it. Configured the install etc, and walked away.  
When I checked on it later, I noticed that it had failed to extract  
comp.tgz due to a bunch of checksum errors. After retrying a few  
times, I gave up and skipped that set. Once the system was installed,  
I had a pile of applications crash on startup (dhclient, PAM  
libraries, etc). Presumably this was caused by checksum errors while  
extracting base.tgz that I had missed.

The next step was to boot from the 1.5.3 floppy again, and drop a 3.0  
netbsd-INSTALL.gz on the disk. I had the same problems here as with - 
current.

No problems with 2.1.

Any ideas? I'd like to get to -current so I can use voodoofb(4)  
instead of ofb(4) :)

Cheers,
Jared