In some email I received from Manuel Bouyer, sie wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:36:41PM -0400, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> >     It's a bunch of firsts for me.  New to Sparc's and new to NetBSD.
> > Actually, got in to NetBSD because OpenBSD doesn't yet support the Ultra
> > Sparc.  Anyway, so I got this Ultra Sparc and I can't do anything with
> > it yet.  It was donated to a Catholic School by Lockheed Martin, and in
> > turn, they gave it to me.  LH wiped the HDD before giving it away (can't
> > blame them) so there's no OS.
> > 
> >     I've followed the instructions in install.html, but first off, I
> > didn't see any directory under ../sparc64/binary/installation called
> > ../floppy so I thought that perhaps ./misc would be enough.  Perhaps
> > something had changed.  Anyway, I'd formated (without /s) a floppy in my
> > Win 98 box to copy these things on to.  Did the copy of every file in
> > that directory to a:, and then through the disk in the Ultra Sparc.
> > (Just wanted to see if I could get something to boot.)
> 
> Sorry, but you can't install NetBSD/sparc64 from floppy yet. If you have an
> Unix machine around, the best way is probably to netboot. See diskless(8)
> on a NetBSD system. You can also get the man page from
> http://www.netbsd.org/

On a similar note, would it take much to prepare a mini-root which you could
boot for NetBSD/sparc* ?  Something you could download, dd into a partition
and then boot from that rather than having to mess around setting up a
netboot.  I think there's something like this available for pmax ?

Darren