>A couple of other options are...
>2. Remove the hard drive from the IPC, connect it to another computer
>   that can understand and write to a BSD-style partition table.  Put
>   the NetBSD miniroot on the drive, along with the required BSD sets,
>   then bring the disk back to the IPC, boot into the miniroot &
>   complete the installation.


Or, drag an *external* SCSI drive over to the machine after
preparing it (either with miniroot *or* a complete NetBSD
system) on another machine.

I keep an "empty", old 1G external ScSI drive around for just
such "portable file system" use.

--don