Hmm...that conficts with:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#sparcimage

"NetBSD/sparc64 (top)

     Currently there is no support for booting NetBSD/sparc64 from CD. It
is on the sparc64 TODO list however and the hardware certainly will
support this. "


Unless you're seriously hard-core, It's probably not worth burnning to a
CD anyway, at least not until there's a bit more hardware support and
maybe sysinst ;-)

--lava


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Criag Robinson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to boot an Ultra1 with only one disk. I don't have any other
> Netbsd machines around (or the expertise) so am trying to avoid
> netbooting. The FAQ says:
>
> "If you have a CD-ROM in your Ultra Sparc you can fetch the ramdisk file
> system image and burn that on a CD. Note: this is not a valid ISO image,
> so you will need a CD-ROM mastering software that trusts you to know
> what you are doing. Cdrecord on NetBSD will do."
>
> Does the above mean that I can simply burn a CD with only the ramdisk.fs
> on it, place it in the Ultra1's cdrom and type 'ok boot cdrom ' to get
> started? Any guidance on the subsequent installation steps would be
> appreciated, no matter how simple or apparently obvious, especially any
> gotchas not mentioned in the install.txt.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Craig Robinson.
>
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>
>

--Brian

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