You might want to see the FAQ entry on that in:
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/faq.html

		David/absolute

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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Joel N. Weber II wrote:

> The sparc boot floppy for netbsd-1.4 fails spectacularily; it is clear
> that nobody has bothered testing it lately.  dmesg fails to work
> because /netbsd doesn't exist, in particular.  There might be some
> other failures to do something intelligent and reasonable.
>