> 
> In the installer, you can start a mini-shell, then cd to some directory,
> type "install" and select the files you want to install from. Then boot
> MacBSD and move the stuff you want to its correct destination.
> "etc" comes as a separate tarball, so you can update "base" without
> nuking your configuration.

You can also cpin the file, and use tar in NetBSD to extract the file.
You can tell tar exactly which file to extract.

Take care,

Bill