>    How hard is it to install NetBSD over SunOS 4.1.3?  I have installed NetBSD
>    on one Sparc a long time ago, and at that time I had to use the SunOS
>    disklabel command and some other magic to get things going.  Is this still
>    necessary?
> 
> can you netboot the machine?  if so, it is simple... otherwise, it may
> be quite non-simple but certainly doable ...

I installed the NetBSD miniroot on an empty partition, booted from it, and
unarchived the real tarballs (created on another NetBSD/Sparc machine).
All was pretty simple (thanks to the serial console - I did this remotely :-)

  -jm


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