Wow!  Many months have passed since a message was posted int 
his list.  I wonder if that means I am the only bloke left with a 
NEWS box without netbsd. =3D)

At 19:33 +0200 29/09/02, J=FCrgen Fricke wrote:
>Hi,
>
>now after many trys i found an boot-image that rocks. But yet another
>problem is that this image looks like incomplete. After the first and
>second boostrap, a minimal NetBSD is running from floppy.
>
>The .profile sh-script ask me to choose terminal type (VT100) and after
>all i type (i) for installation. But the script can't execute the sysinst
>program.
>
>Where can i find this program compiled for running on NEWS-MIPS R3000?
>And what i have to do to now for the next undocumented steps?
>
>Any suggestions, tips or hints?
>
>Best regards,
>Jofry

	Sounds like you went further than I did:

Testing memories: done.
12288K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:e7

NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot

NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot
Booting fh(0,0,0)
1072536+2128992+129556 [89+47888+37487]=3D0x344b6c

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.4L (INSTALL) #5: Sun Oct 31 22:44:53 JST 1999
     tsutsui@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/newsmips/compile/INSTALL
total memory =3D 12256 KB
avail memory =3D 7952 KB
using 178 buffers containing 712 KB of memory
SONY NET WORK STATION, Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: cpu0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 2.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 2.0
cpu0: 64KB Instruction, 64KB Data, direct mapped cache
hb0 at mainbus0
le0 at hb0 addr 0xbff80000: address 08:00:46:00:79:e7
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
mkclock0 at hb0 addr 0xbff407f8
zsc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfec0000
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
sc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfe00100
scsibus0 at sc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
=9D
I've been trying different boot files.  Usually they would hang up 
just before the Copyright notice.  The one I tried was

-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1474560 Sep 15 10:14 boot-newsmips-14L-nofb=
=2Efs

which seems to be a bit larger than the floppy:

# dd if=3Dboot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs bs=3D18k of=3D/dev/rfd0a
write: No space left on device
80+0 records in
80+0 records out
#

Oh well, at least I went somewhere.  That said, it now hangs up on 
waiting for the devices to settle, whatever it means by that.  I 
wonder if that means the SCSI HD I have in the machine is not working.