Thanks for your replies gents.

> " - combined with the fact that the NetBSD cd driver doesn't listen to sun
> disklabels basically meant that while one could built a bootable cdrom quite
> easily, one was not able to _access_ the data afterward."

Presumably this would explain the errors I got when trying to boot from cdrom
then:

"Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package" etc

Ho hum, time for a different tack i think.

Cheers

Craig