On Tue, 5 May 1998, Richard Ingram wrote:

> The way I did it with a 1GB Seagate is to format and newfs the disk under
> SunOS, dd the miniroot onto the swap of the new disk. Boot from the swap
> partition and install from local HD (that just so happened to be on the same
> Seagate HD). System is now up and running like a dream (well just getting
> everything as I want it). I have more details of what exactly I did written at
> home, I could write them up as a sorta FAQ ??

I added instructions for installing from SunOS to the sun3 and sun3x
INSTALL documents about 2 weeks ago.  Take a look at them and see 
if they are detailed enough and accurately describe what you had
to do.

(ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/distrib/notes/sun3/install)

-J