At 08:54 AM 2/3/98 +0000, Julian Coleman wrote:
>Rick Copeland wrote:
>> Can I make a boot tape with the Sun 3 "MakeBootTape" for booting my Sparc
>> 330?  The disk is not labeled and I would like to load Sparc/NetBSD 1.3.
>
>Well, I would guess not.  The Sun 3 'MakeBootTape' script uses 'tapeboot',
>'netbsd-rd.gz' and 'miniroot.gz'.  These files don't exist in the Sparc
>distribution.  I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to make 'netbsd-rd.gz'
>and 'miniroot.gz' (from a running system).  However, is it possible to make
>a tape boot image using (say) installboot?
>
>Also, for the 4/330, you'll find that the 1.3 kernels don't work.  Jason
>Wright and Paul Kranenburg have looked at this, and I now have a working
>machine.  If you like, I can make a kernel that works on a 4/330 available
>for ftp.
>
>J
>
>PS.  Are you able to netboot this machine or is tape installation the only
>method you have?
>
Julian,

If you could make a kernal available on FTP that would be great!  Why is the
Sparc 330 so different from say a 4/300 which I understand NetBSD Sparc 1.3
will work with?  I have done several postings to this list since I got this
machine a couple of weeks ago and there hasn't been much responce.  I am
very surprised at this because I thought that Sun Sparc was much more popular.  

To address you question regarding netbooting, I do have several machines as
follows that are running NetBSD:

        Sun 3/80 (NetBSD 1.21)
        Sun 3/150 (NetBSD 1.2)
        i386 (Pentium 100) (netBSD 1.2)
        Vax 3600 (NetBSD 1.1)

To date I have not tried netbooting any of these, all were installed with a
tapeboot to get the miniroot running then I would use FTP to the i386
machine to bring in the Binaries.

If you have any ideas as to how I can get this machine(Sparc Station 330)
running it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Rick Copeland
Rick Copeland