Justin Heath writes:
> I have a sparcstation 5 without any removable media devices. I would 
> like to upgrade from 1.4.2 to 1.5. I understand I can put the sets on a 
> local drive and install them. The question though is how?

You could always manually untar them rather than using sysinst.

> Is there a binary of sysinst that I can run while booted into 1.4.2 if 
> so I cannot seem to find it (location on the ftp srver would be nice). 
> The other tought was to download miniroot.fs and boot to it but I am not 
> sure how to do that. Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA.

Look in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/sparc/installation/bootfs
for a boot kernel.  Check the install docs, but I think you need the kernel
and the instfs.gz file as well.

The miniroot.fs should be covered in the installation docs as well.
When I have used it (a couple of years ago), you did something like
this: (in single-user)
# dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rsd0b bs=16k conv=sync
# halt
ok boot disk:b

This should all be covered in the installation documentation though.

-Andrew