I'll check it out tomorrow and try doing it by hand with the NetBSD 
boot floppy (I let the installer do all the work the last two times I 
tried). I, unfortunately, don't have a copy of SunOS to try. I got 
the box with a pretty messed up install of SunOS but no master disks 
which is why I'm trying for NetBSD.

Thank you again for your help!

-Lloyd
At 10:26 AM +1100 11/29/2000, Paul (NCC/CS wrote:
<SNIP>
>
>I don't think so. But I don't know for sure. Like you say post
>to the list to see if someone knows. In fact I'll take the liberty
>of cc'ing this to the list if you don't mind. To me it sounds like
>boot blocks, boot sectors. Something wrong doing bad checksum.
>Why I don't know as the install was all by the netbsd install
>program.  Perhaps you could try booting with Solaris/sunos and
>then building a netbsd disk by hand. Like untar the stuff manually
>into a disk you prepare manually, disklabel etc. Then install the
>bootblocks manually.  I am assuming that you can boot netbsd
>with a floppy or cdrom and go out to a shell that is!:) so that
>you can run the newfs and installboot commands.
>
>cheers,
>Paul.
>
>
>>
>>
>>  -Lloyd
>>
>>  At 10:00 AM +1100 11/28/2000, Paul (NCC/CS wrote:
>>  >Lloyd,
>>  >this may well not be it but when I have seen these messages in the
>>  >past (with sunos installs not netbsd) it has usually been something
>>  >to do with the boot blocks I installed. For instance once I used an
>>  >installboot program from solaris 2.5 to do the boot blocks for a sunos
>>  >4.1 transplant and this was a no go. (Got the checksum error.)
>>  >I had to use the sunos installboot program. Since the netbsd install
>>  >would use it's own installboot program this is probably not the problem.
>>  >
>>  >But it may give you some things to think about.
>>  >
>>  >Paul.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >>
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>>  >Paul      (pts@bom.gov.au)
>>  >National Climate Centre
>>  >Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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>>  "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
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>
>____________________________________________
>
>Paul  (pts@bom.gov.au)
>National Climate Centre
>Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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