On Thu, 28 Dec 95 18:06:52 PST 
 "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> wrote:

 > It turns out that Sun does have a "format" program in the RAM disk kernel
 > on the boot tape. NetBSD 1.1 doesn't, though, which means you can't install
 > on systems where you CAN install SunOS.

Umm ... Why?  The necessary disklabel tools are in the sun3 ramdisk and 
miniroot...

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