| i recently downloaded a bootable cdrom from
|
| 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.5/sparc64cd.iso
|
| and tried installing on a Sparc Ultra1. the cd boots fine - and much
| faster than solaris8 -, yet it halts and asks for a root device.
| unfortunately, i could find none on the cd...
|
| there is a partition that holds all the installation files, but nothing
| that can be used as root...
|
| i downloaded a netbsd 1.5.1 cd from the same place and will try it
| tonight. if the same thing happens, you should hear from me...
|
| otherwise - am i doing anything wrong? i boot with "boot cdrom" - is
| there anything like "boot cdrom netbsd-INSTALL" or something that will
| bring up sysinst?

1.5 and 1.5.1 do not support RAM disk roots that are necessary to
boot from CDROM.  So you cannot successfully boot 1.5* from a CDROM.
That is fixed in -current, and a new -current snapshot should be
available shortly.

Eduardo