In article <40356a660605112020k34805274h688b3e86d6619c69@mail.gmail.com>,
Bruno Gallant <scion@bsdnode.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been a FreeBSD user for many years, but my first try with
>NetBSD gives me some issues.  I have an old SPARCstation 20 and tried
>to install 3.0 on it.  Here are the things I noticed that was not
>working correctly:
>
>1- The install script asked me if I wanted to configure the network,
>which I did, but it did not get configured.

I don't know why that would be.

>2- I have no cursor!  Pretty hard to configure stuff with vi like
>that.  (I read somewhere that I would have to install the kernel
>sources and recompile.  Makes senss, but see next problem)

Unfortunately we had a bug...

>3- sushi core dumps each time I want to configure things with it, or
>try to install a new package or the kernel sources.

Forget about sushi [it has been removed in current anyway]

$ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/conf
$ config GENERIC
$ cd ../compile/GENERIC
$ make
$ mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
$ cp netbsd /

>
>I am a bit lost, but I really want to learn.

The NetBSD guide is a good place to start.

christos