>I'm working on installing NetBSD on my 3100, and am somewhat stuck. I
>managed to get the kernel to load, and i'm in single-user via NFS. I
>can't, though, get sysinst to run. It is complaining that it can't
>initialize curses. And I did TERM=pmax  and exported TERM. Is there a
>trick to getting curses to work? Thanks.

did you try 
    TERM=rcons; export TERM
or
    TERM=sun; export TERM

I think that's what the install docs say. The rcons glass-tty emulator
emulates a Sun PROM console. We have rcons as an alias, but not
pmax... should that be added for 1.3.3?