On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:18:06PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> I am new to NetBDS, I've worked with OpenBSD for sometime
> however it has not been compiled for SUN4u 64bit chips yet, 
> so I am now going to try NetBSD for my sparc boxes.  Reading
> the instalation notes it references the following;
> under the source tree.
> 
> /instalation/
> floppy/
> sparc64 boot and instalation floppies
> 
> miniroot/
> sparc64 miniroot file system image
> 
> /misc ect... .....
> 
> Instalation suggests doing a "dd" of miniroot.fs to my 
> swap partion and booting from from that image, HOWEVER
> I am unable to locate a miniroot.fs or floppyXX.fs file
> anywhere.  I have looked on 15+ ftp distribution sites
> and there is no such files
> 
> on all of the sites I've looked on the source tree is
> 
> /NetBSD-1.5/sparc64
> 
> INSTALL.html
> INSTALL.more
> INSTALL.ps
> INSTALL.txt
> binary/
> /kernel/
> /sets/
> 
> installation/
> /misc/
> /netboot/
> /ramdisk/
> 
> I downloaded ramdisk.fs and "dd'ed" this into my swap file system 
> and booted this "fs" image
> 

You might get more luck with snapshot

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/snapshot/20010114/

Regards,
	Andrey