That's an easy one.  I had the same problem when I gownload the binarys
with anarchy.  It seems to default to (ascii) text mode.  Solution:  I used
Fetch and explicitly demanded a binary dl all is well.  This only happened
on the NetBSD ftp site so far.  Could happen anywhere though.  Rule of
thumb be sure binaries are xfered as binaries.  Usually I just go ahead and
make sure of a binary DL all the time text, binary, unknown.  I can always
sort it out back "home".

Regards,
Bob

>Hi, I am new to NetBSD, so probably I am doing a stupid mistake.
>
>Hi have partitioned a HD with 20 MB for MacOS, 125 MB Root & Usr, 25 MB for
>Swap and 3 MB Eschatology.
>I have also formated Root & Usr with mkfs and when I use Install, the
>partition
>/ gets mounted, I can use ls, rm and I can install the Kernel, I have used
>madhatter#35.tar.gz.
>
>I have also downloaded base12 and etc12, but if try to install them, the
> installer aborts with error 1, it briefly shows "try with cpin cpout".
>I tried this mode, but it only copy the files to the unix side.
>If I use gzip and tar to decompress the files, they also find that these are
>not gzip files and tar finds also errors.
>The tree files, etc12, base12 and the kernel were downloaded with fetch 3.0.
>
>Could anyone be so kind to give me a hand ??
>Sincerely, Fernando Ubiria