I had to use a good chunk of 386 BSD pl 23 to fill in the missing parts from the CVS archive of the kernel, but I got it to build! The source for NetBSD is derived from 386BSD 0.1, patched with the 0.2.2 patch kit. In addition, many programs in UCB's second BSD Networking Software Release which were missing from 386BSD have been integrated into NetBSD, some of the changes from the upcoming 0.2.3 patch kit have been included, and many local additions and bug fixes have been performed. So I'm assuming this wouldn't be too far off then. So for the curious, here is a dmesg: 386BSD 0.1 (GENERICISA) #2: Sun Dec 5 13:30:14 PST 2010 root@branch.oldbsd.org:/usr/src/sys.386bsd/arch/compile/J real mem = 67104768 avail mem = 64663552 pc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on isa pc0: color wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: <QEMU HARDDISK> wd0 at wdc0 slave 0 fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa ne0 at 0x320 irq 10 on isa ethernet address 52:54:00:12:34:56 npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa wdc0: extra interrupt wdc0: extra interrupt ISA strayintr 4004ff ISA strayintr 4004ff ISA strayintr 4004ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff ISA strayintr 2ff Too many ISA strayintr not logging any more I'm not sure if the 386BSD name is hanging around because of all the 386 BSD files I included of if it wasn't renamed in NetBSD 0.8 ... I can give anyone the list of files, steps etc, or it may be easier to just download the merged & built sources here: http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8/Resurrecti… Thanks to everyone for providing the CVS and a few hints on what was going on with it..!