FWIW, the #MidnightBSD installation was successful but the system is in a deeply inconsistent state. Went with defaults but even the $PS1 prompt is screwed up. (Seems to have stock ksh defaults but it offered mksh as the shell as standard -- so the \u variables in the prompt do not evaluate). X11 is missing but ~/.xinitrc is populated, even though I told it to enable a graphical environment. Something seems broken with networking too, it cannot resolve the ntp servers - that is with the bogstandard axe0 Apple USB Ethernet adapter that works with everything else always. MidnightBSD never gonna stay, I was only distrohopping, but this is rather disappointing. I'd rather debug NetBSD this evening. FWIW, #OpenBSD works without a hitch.