That did it, using sun-ss5.  Thanks!  I am having some issues booting
after the install though.  I tried "boot disk1:a", and a is the root
partition, but it says it can't find the file "netbsd".  Any suggestions
anyone?

--Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org]
On Behalf Of Manuel Bouyer
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:32 PM
To: Brian McCann
Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Install question


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:17:14AM -0500, Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all.  I'm having some issues installing NetBSD on my SPARCStation 
> 20, and please forgive me if I use some of the wrong terminology since

> this is my first time dealing with a SPARCStation.  I downloaded and 
> installed OpenBSD, got it running with few problems, worked great, but

> I want SMP support, and someone suggested that NetBSD had it.  So I'm 
> trying to install it so I can update to -current and try it out. 
> However, the install screens are going crazy.  For example, as I sit 
> here, it's downloading the packages from ftp.netbsd.org , and the 
> screen has TONS of garbage on it, and only some readable text...almost

> like the video buffer is overflowing.  BUT, the video card ran X fine 
> in OpenBSD. Can someone help me out?  Am I doing something wrong?

Looks like wrong terminal type. Is it serial console ? If so, you most
probably want vt100. If graphic display, try sun-ss5 instead of sun

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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