Hello Andrew,

   AB> i don't recall exactly what problems i had when doing
     > this, but cross-building for sparc from my i386 laptop
     > is how i got my sparc going.

It's good to know that it's possible...

   AB> the build died at some point most of the way through,

                         ...if not entirely trouble-free. ;-)


   AB> tell the machine to boot from the net and use tcpdump
     > to see if it's emitting any packets.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

- Andy Ball.