>  * 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 :-)
> 
> Ahh, the joys of UNIX (which NetBSD really is, functionally).  You could
> theoretically have done all this over the network without ever leaving
> your desk three buildings away, plus backed it up and restored it.

Well, I backed up the SunOS stuff and did the whole installation at my desk
_12 kilometers_ away from the Sparc. :-)  I _did_ have to visit the place
before to attach a serial cable to the Sparc's port, but after that,
everything was done over network (the console cable is connected to another
NetBSD box, of course, so I can reach the console from anywhere :-)


  -jm


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