> I can check if miniroot works for me, where did you get an image?

I tried two which got me to the same place.  Here was the one who's output
was in the email:

ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200404300000/sparc64/ins
tallation/miniroot/miniroot.fs.gz

The other came from a -current snapshot from my build server from early
March.  

Thanks,

peter