On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:49:50AM -0700, Zhongwen Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an SPARC station 10 which has dual TI390Z50
> CPUs. Since it has no CD driver for it, I would like
> to install the NetBSD ffrom the floppy driver. I have
> checked several ftp sites, most of them has a
> corrupted bootable image. The SUN OpenProm complains
> about bad magic number. The I check the files I
> downloaded for the disk1, the boot.fs shows a time
> stamp at 2010-11-28 12:00. Can anyone help me to
> rebuild the dump then put it on the net? 
> 
> Or other suggestions to how shall I do to boot the
> machine? Since I have got the machine from a second
> hand market, I have no knowledge of how to log on the
> old VMUnix installed on the hard disk. 

From the PROM, you could do "boot net" and boot from the network. 
You have to setup up a second machine to serve out the NetBSD kernel, 
but it's not too hard.

best wishes,
Chris