At 8:02 PM +0100 5/26/01, Chris wrote:

:)I have RARP, TFTP and bootparamd working to load the first stage but
:)can't find the ramdisk kernel mentioned in
:)
:) http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/local.install.html

You're probably looking for
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/20010510-1.5.1_BETA2/install
ation/bootfs/netbsd.ram.aout.gz

:)Can I load it directly via TFTP in the first stage? (if not, why not?)

No, becuase the SPARC OpenBoot PROM isn't capable of it.

Have fun,
  -- MW