There is no fd device on a sparc 5.  It doesn't interpret it as a device 
anyway, it appears, as the boot prom prints:

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a  File and args:  fd
boot:  cannot open fd
Enter filename [fd]:

which means it is looking for a file named "fd" on the hard drive.

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:27 pm, Greywolf wrote:
> Thus spake Seth Kurtzberg ("SK> ") sometime Today...
>
> SK> I'm attempting to install netbsd on a sparc 5 with little success. 
> I've tried SK> the sparc floppies, the sparc CD, and the sparc64 floppies. 
> the different SK> "boot" statements (in the PROM) get different results,
> but none work.  The SK> help for the PROM lists "boot floppy".  however,
> "boot floppy" gets "Can't SK> open boot device."  The floppy does work,
> however, because when I boot SK> Solaris the floppy is mounted.
>
> "boot fd"
>
>
> 				--*greywolf;
> --
> NetBSD: If you look through Windows

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