Hi, @ojsaki
Thank to share your experience. If stable run correctly, so good!
but the project highlights the #RELEASE version; if one user desire use the #STABLE version, he must search deep, outside the site, certainly in the http repositories.
You have to understand this: for an average user, with or without IT experience, who chooses to test NetBSD, getting stuck with all these difficulties is out of the "simple install, easy to use" context.
Having all these issues with the highlighted version is not normal.
Since the installation was simply basic, as described in the various posts, and the hypothesis of hardware failure has been ruled out, since this is apparently not the case, this should not happen. Unfortunately, it is.
Fortunately, some very competent people here try to understand, such as @rvp, @pin, or @JuvenalUrbino
If they had not been there, correct, investigating, I would have given up because this situation is not normal. And that, if I accept to be bothered, it is because they are there. Otherwise, no interest!
Voila!
PS: Thanks to them: @rvp, @pin, @JuvenalUrbino