Re: Keyboard fails on Sparc64 install of NetBSD 4.0.1

[Soren Jacobsen <snj%pobox.com@localhost>]

On 04/15 14:14, Scott Dalton wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> Based upon what I have read, and the behaviour I have observed with
> this Sun Blade 150, it seems as though I really have no choice but to
> bootstrap the install via netboot (with RARP?) and use the NetBSD-5
> candidate. The rationale behind using the netboot method would be a) I
> don't have a working Solaris OR NetBSD formatted HDD (it was wiped
> prior to me getting my hands on it), and b) I have had no success
> creating a bootable CD with miniroot. If someone has some good docs on
> that, it would be helpful. For example, when I install OpenBSD on
> other systems, I have been able to boot a very minimal CD and then
> grab all of the sets (.tgz format) via http.

http://netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#sparc64image

However, the simpler solution is to simply download a full ISO:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/200904140002Z/iso/sparc64cd.iso