On Mon, Jan 10 2005 - 20:32, Stephen Young wrote:
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> Hello everyone, I am new to a few things, this list, sun workstations 
> and netbsd :D  I have used freebsd, openbsd, and linux in the past, but 
> this is my first install of netbsd.  I have heard so many good things 
> about it.
> 
> I am wanting to install netbsd on a sun ultra 10 workstation, I have 
> the open boot bios configured as far as I can tell, aliases set up for 
> harddrive and cdroms.
> 

I downloaded the sparc64.iso (seen on every good FTP site ;), burned
with cdrecord (on my i386 laptop) and boot my U5 with it. It also
installed my U10 & U5 at work. It should install your ;)

ftp://ftp2.fr.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0/sparc64cd.iso

> I followed the faq on setting up a boot cdrom, but I do not have access 
> to the sunlabel utility.  I am running on a powerbook with os 10.3.7.  
> Also the ISOs downloaded from the ftp site didn't work for me after 
> burning them (not sure if they were bootable or not).
> 
> I noticed there is no floppy drive support at this time.
> 
> Looks like my options are to get parts together to get a workstation 
> with a burner and install the i386 version and prepare the sparc64 iso 
> and burn it.  Or find a way to get the harddisk itself set up with a 
> kernel and some drivers so I can access the cdrom and finish the 
> installation or something.
> 
> I have searched the docs, and faqs on netbsd.org and did google 
> searches and could not locate information that helps me much in my 
> situation.
> 
> Any of you veterans have ideas of how I can go about solving this ?
> 
> Thanks for your time and your help,
> 
> - --
> Stephen Young
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