- "kern.tgz" is a hand-built set that only sysinst ports have built, so 
  the sparc 1.3.2 distribution does not have it.  you will have to fake
  it with the kernel in the "kernel" directory.

- there was never a "NetBSD-1.3F" directory on the ftp server.  this name
  is derived from the version of the kernel (in this case, 1.3F).  you
  will just need to make it "NetBSD-1.3.2" for now, as this isn't part of
  a release (yet).

- it certainly does find "netbsd.gz" for me, on an ss2:

Rebooting with command: floppy
Boot device: /fd   File and args:
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
>> (mrg@goa.eterna.com.au, Sun Jun 21 01:00:31 EST 1998)
open: netbsd: No such file or directory: trying netbsd.gz...
Booting netbsd.gz @ 0x4000
933888+1698192+131888+[57600+65416]=0x2c4d50
[ preserving 123020 bytes of netbsd symbol table ]
console is ttya
   [ ... ]

- you may find that it does not create device nodes.

- gerryt:  what did you do to wipe your disk?  what do you mean a "full
  installed" fixed it?  BTW, you should use '/usr/mdec/binstall' to install
  boot blocks on the sparc.  if you have a /usr/sbin/installboot, remove
  it, as it is old and wrong.  the only thing i can imagine is that your
  disks probed differently than you have them installed and you accidentally
  gave the wrong one.  this happens to me on my test machine, where sd0 is
  scsi id3, and sd1 is scsi id1 (and are probed the other way around by the
  boot floppy).  sysinst is a little ... lacking in helping you decide what
  disks to choose from, by only showing the sdN name, not any other info..
  this needs to be fixed.

- sysinst has currently no way of dealing with packages.


.mrg.