> Am newly attempting to become a netBSD convert.

Welcome!

> I have a Sparc2 [...] presently running Solaris... SunOS 5.3 [...]

Yup, that's Solaris.

> I have downloaded pretty much all the 1.3.2 distribution (binary) for
> sparc, have loaded the miniroot onto my swap partition, and have made
> a limited amount of success with installation.

> The device for my swap partition (under sunos) is /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s1
> and the boot string I need to use from the halt: prompt is
> boot /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0:b netbsd -s

Looks fairly straightforward.  Do you have any other disk on the
machine, or is the drive at SCSI ID 3 the only one?

> When it boots, it runs through an internal test (?) where a string of
> numerics is compiled onto one line....

If you mean the 1695744+123064+178180 line, that's just reporting the
sizes (in bytes) of various pieces of the kernel.

> Next it runs through a hardware check, finds the hd, fd, etc. etc.

> It then asks if I wish to do an install or upgrade.  I choose install
> (though I also tried upgrade) and it continues on to ask me for the
> time zone.  I enter CST5CDT as the time zone, it then shows the
> prompt for disk to install to, immediately followed by the message:
> "Segmentation fault".

> This leaves me at a stop, wondering what to do next?

You could always unpack the distribution by hand.  If you have a
partition on the disk you don't mind scribbling on (aside from the swap
area), this probably could be done.  If you feel like trying it, drop
me a note and I'll be glad to talk off-list about what would be
involved.

As someone already mentioned, CST5CDT is not an available timezone.
You could try CST6CDT, or (preferably) something more like US/Central
or Canada/Central.  But since I never use the canned install procedure,
I shall leave further recommendations on its use to others.

					der Mouse

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