>> Try booting the "nfsnetbsd.ecoff" kernel and see if that works.  It's a
>> stripped down kernel that may work on some machines because it comes in
>> under 1MB.  If it does, please let me know.
>
> Could you point me to a URL or site? I'm a Linux user and not familiar
> with the NetBSD sites/layout.

The file can be found in standard distribution set.

$ ls
BSDSUM          MD5             netbsd.ecoff.gz nfsnetbsd.ecoff
CKSUM           SYSVSUM         netbsd.gz
$ pwd
/u2/NetBSD/pmax/binary/kernel
~~~~~~~~~~(this differs for site to site)
$ ls ../sets
BSDSUM       MD5SUM       comp.tgz     kern.tgz     text.tgz     xcontrib.tgz
CKSUM        SYSVSUM      etc.tgz      man.tgz      xbase.tgz    xfont.tgz
MD5          base.tgz     games.tgz    misc.tgz     xcomp.tgz    xserver.tgz

Tohru Nishimura
Information Technology Centre
Nara Institute of Science and Technology