I don't have a RiscServer so, I'm not 100% sure, but this is what I did for
my Olivetti M700-10.

Found/made a kernel that boots and that can see the scsi bus.  Put the
kernel on a floppy and booted from the arc prompt with something like

multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\netbsd

You may be able to boot elf images, or you may need coff image like me.

Once I verified that I had a good kernel, I connected a zip disk, and make a
NetBSD partition on the zip disk using a NetBSD/i386 machine, copied the
snapshot onto the zip, and specified the zip disk as my root partition(after
booting with floppy)

From there, I disklabel'd the internal scsi drive after fdisk, and mkfs, and
unzipped the snapshot into the internal disk.

I have a dos partition on my internal drive, and I now have 

scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\netbsd

as my default boot device.

I suppose I could have connected the scsi disk to my NetBSD/i386 box, and
created the partitions directly there, copied the snapshot, and then move
the disk to the ARC box.  I ended up doing alot of back and forth stuff, so
I used zip.  Worked well for me.

Hope this is of some help.

....maki....

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Bloom [mailto:kbloom@winternet.com]
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:56 PM
To: port-arc@netbsd.org
Subject: NEC RiscServer 2200


*sorry if I'm submitting this question to the wrong address - I'm a
relative newbie*

Can anyone point me to some pretty basic instructions on how to get a NEC
RiscServer 2200 booted from a floppy and the NetBSD arc port installation
started???? I've thoroughly browsed the NetBsd site and other linux/unix
sites for info to no avail. What do you do with the "snapshot"?