> 
   > For some reason I cannot seem to netboot my SPARCstatin 2 with the
   > boot.net from the NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA snapshot.  The OpenPROM is able to
   > load the boot program, however I always get the mesage "The file just
   > loaded does not appear to be executable."  The cksum for
   > usr.misc.tar.gz is identical to the one in the CKSUMS file, and I am
   > using "boot net netbsd -s" to boot the SPARC.  Also,  tftpd(8) is
   > running from a FreeBSD machine, as well as rarpd.  Could I be doing
   > anything obviously wrong?

  I was getting short "short reads" when I bootstrap'd from a  small swap
partition and recall getting somethinig like the message your getting 
when I didn't mix up sd0 and sd3 like OpenBoot does by default.
 
	BTW: I'm for droping this obfucication. 

Anyway that might be your problem.
  
  I installed 19971112, less /usr/share (due to ftp problems) and after
about the same amount of non-sense as found on OpenBSD and Linux on 
SPARCstations, I got it together. Didn't see a /usr/ports environment
yet or any of the NAT stuff. Boots on Sun-4/75 (SS2) fine; not anything
to write home about though.


-piet