Ken> That way if someone was going to have a MS-DOS partition as well, they could
    Ken> put the install sets on the MS-DOS partition, and mount that partition when
    Ken> it came time to do the actual installation.  This would also facilitate the
    Ken> sharing of NetBSD and MS-DOS, which would make NetBSD more attractive to a
    Ken> wide range of users.

This is just what I actually did.  It was totally winning.  It was all
done by hand, of course.