Its unlikely that the Sun's prom can read linux disklabels.
	If you have another machine with an ethernet connection then you
	should be able to boot either sun across the network & install
	that way.
	
	Alternatively if you give me the geometry information of your
	disk I could probably run off a prom compatible disklabel you
	could just 'dd' onto the raw partition of the disk in another
	machine.

		David/abs

  ... and so am I, maybe its the other way round, I can't seem to decide ...

On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Dave Neel wrote:

> I am trying to install NetBSD 'on' a Sun 4/110 and/or 4/20. The problem is
> that I don't have a Sun disk for either of these machines. I am using a DEC
> RZ-23 that I had lying around. In short, I used Linux fdisk to set up two
> partitions, tried partition types that were listed as 'BSDI' and 'BSDI
> swap' (I forget the codes) and copied the miniroot to both. I got 
> >	Booting from: sd(0,0,0)netbsd -s
> >
> >	Bad magic number is disk label!
> >	The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> 
> I then tried switching to partition type &h63 (SYS V?)
> Same thing.
> Do I still have the wrong partition type, or am I going about this in
> entirely the wrong manner?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> Dave Neel
> dneel@bellatlantic.net
>