On Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:41:11 -0500 (CDT) 
 Dane Ohe <djohe@usgs.gov> wrote:

 > 	1) My sparc has a floppy drive (but the floppy image under
 > 	   ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc doesn't work for me).

Hmm ... what exactly is the failure mode?

 > 	2) I have a QIC-150 tape that I can write under DG/UX (m88k SVr4).
 > 	   Is it possible to write a boot tape?

It might be possible to do this, yes, in the same manner the sun3 does 
it...though the code hasn't been written for or tested on the sparc.

 > 	3) I have (root) access to a DG/UX (m88k SRv4) machine that I
 > 	   could try to netboot from. Would I have a problem (e.g. trying 
 > 	   to make the /dev? entries) doing this from DG/UX?

This, I don't know...

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