I had the same problem with netbsd 1.4.2 and solved it simply
by using a netbsd 1.4.1 install floppy.

/Robert Lundkvist        robert.lundkvist@telia.com

tester 777 wrote:

> i'm attempting CD install of netbsd 1.5 on i386 platform
> everything runs fine in sysinstall until i get to package installation
> i select CDROM as the source, but when prompted for the location of the
> binaries, sysinstall does not seem to recognize "cd0" as my cd drive.
>
> i've tried setting device to cd0a, cd0a1, cd1, cd1a, etc.  none of those
> points sysinstall to the cddrive.  i looked through /kern/msgbuf  there's no
> "cd" string in there of anykind. is this normal?  the drive must be detected
> because all of this is booting from cd.
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