> I've looked through the FAQ's on www.netbsd.org but haven't been able to 
> find information on how to make a bootable tape.  Is it really as simple as 
> using dd to put a miniroot on the front of a tape and then telling the 
> SPARCstation to boot from tape or is there some more complicated magic to 
> it?  I'm going to be installing NetBSD-1.3.3 or NetBSD-1.4 to a completely 
> empty drive soon so if no one has any info on how to do this and I do 
> manage to figure it out, to where would I submit the procedure?

I use a sunos tape to boot and initially set up the machine.  Then,
I dd the miniroot to swap and boot that.  It might be nice to roll
an ordinary bootable tape for my sun4 dinosaur.  Anyone got the right
bootblock bits for that?  I know, the sun4 is only half a sparc, but
it tries......(:+}}....

Bob Keys