At 11:16 AM +0200 2002/04/17, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>  This may be the problem. I only tried cross-build from elf systems.

	Blargh.

>  Do you have access to a i386 machine somewhere ? If so you could cross-build
>  from here, it should work.

	I am in the process of taking over my wife's old Compaq Armada 
4131T laptop (130 Mhz Pentium, w/48MB RAM and 2GB HD), but this 
process is not yet complete -- it still has Windows 98 on it, and 
there are some important files that still need to be 
rescued/backed-up before I can snarf the machine.  There is also her 
new laptop, but there's no way in hell that I'll be able to get my 
hands on that, leastwise not for installing something like *BSD.

>  Another way is to first install a sparc ELF snapshot (from:
>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/20020125-1.5ZA/ for
>  example) and then rebuild from sources.

	Ahh.  Okay.  I would basically re-install the system, using the 
standard boot floppy, etc....  Right?

	However, I presume that I would need to somehow select the 
snapshot to be installed, as opposed to allowing the installation 
process to automatically select the 1.5.2-REL tarballs.  I'll check 
the NetBSD Guide myself, but just in case I don't find anything -- Is 
there any documentation anywhere that would show how to do this?

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