Sparc 2 here. Network installation of 6.1.4 proceeds until the attempt to partition the disk gives "Status: openpty() failed". These That makes me wonder if the root filesystem being used is missing pty entries, or something like that. If you can run the machine diskless (over NFS), you might then write the miniroot image to the disk, and then boot that, as described in INSTALL.html.
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