i told Ross i was going to bed last night after getting the alpha booted,
disklabeled and newfsed.  ended up installing NetBSD after i told him i was
going to bed.  shoulda gone to bed.  in my haste to get NetBSD up onto the
machine i forgot to install a kernel onto the root partition.  bah.

so, what are my options here?  the boot from tape was a complete failure, and
i blame the alpha since i've booted from that tape drive before.  so i pulled
the drive out, slung it off of my NetBSD/sparc box and used dd to put cdhdtape
onto the disk.  no sweat.  so, can i just stick that drive back in my Sun box,
mount the root filesystem and copy the alpha kernel to the disk, or is there
a problem with Sun mounting alpha UFS?  if so, can i dd cdhdtape to slice c or
will that destroy my install?  it would be trivial to reinstall the OS, but
i'd like to try the "alternate" method first.

thanks,

-brian