Sysinst prior to NetBSD-1.4 seemed to have problem setting up network
interface.
To get arround the problem, dropping into shell and configure
network interface manually. 
Network interface name <I>ne0</I> may differ dependinding 
what PCI card you have. 

<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3 BORDER>
<CAPTION>
Network Interface Name for ifconfig command
</CAPTION>
<TR><TH>Ethernet Card</TH><TH>network interface name</TH></TR>
<TR><TD>Macintosh internal</TD><TD>mc0</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>NE2000 or compatible</TD><TD>ne0</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>VT86C926</TD><TD>ne0</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>
<A HREF="http://www.digital.com/info/PROOCQ/">
DEC 21x40</A>
</TD><TD>de0</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

<PRE>
Terminal type? [vt100] xterm
Erase is backspace.
(I)nstall, (S)hell or (H)alt ? s
# ifconfig ne0 192.168.40.123 netmask 255.255.255.0
<FONT COLOR="#448822">if you will mount NFS file system 
of another NFS server, 
it is good time to mount manually 
(and say local disk /nfs when 
<A HREF="120-select-medium">120-select-medium</A> asked )
# mkdir /nfs
# mount -t nfs 192.168.40.120:/home6<A HREF="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/19990620/binary/sets/">/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/19990620/binary/sets</A> /nfs</FONT>
</PRE>

To run sysinst again, type<P><TT>
./sysinst</TT>,