Hello,

> Well, what I wind up with is a kernel and userland from your ftp area,
> so which COMPAT_x0 was set shouldn't matter by that point.  But that
> might explain why the screen was so goofy during the install.

Well, this /should/ work.

> What options did you have set to give the nicer console output?  I've
> booted the kernel from HEAD/200511090000Z, and it's back to the ~66x27
> screen.

The kernel from HEAD doesn't use wscons. I'll upload a more recent one.
try ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc/netbsd_SPARCbook_11_15.bz2
That's what I'm using right now.

have fun
Michael