> Basically, rebuilding a system should require a very bare minimum from the 
> currently installed system.  NetBSD should be able to build itself without
> needing to patch itself.
If you have LOTS of space you can just create a complete distribution
you don't even have to install usr/share/mk you can use the -m parameter
for make and install into yourdistrib/usr/share/mk instead.
For details on how to automagically create a complete distribution see
~ftp/pub/NetBSD/ports/i386/distrib-current/{etc-*,monthly.d*} on
netbsd.wifo.uni-mannheim.de
Cheerio

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current	release=doc host=netbsd.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror"
hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix