> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Kazuyoshi Kato(kaz-k) wrote:
> 
> # First of all, apologize for the cross-post and somewhat off-topic
> # question here and there.
> # 
> # I have diskless, both HDD and FDD SPARCstation-1 here and wonder if I
> # could make NetBSD bootable disk and install it as internal disk(ID-3
> # disk) in it without SunOS however by Macs which are running MacOS as
> # well as NetBSD...
> 
> Are you asking if you can take a sparcBSD and run it on the mac side
> as macBSD?
> 
> If so, then no, as they are different architectures.
>
> If you're asking if you can mount the NetBSD disk under MacOS, again,
> the answer is no, as they are different operating systems (so what's our
> excuse?).
> 
> If you're asking if you can mount the NetBSD/sparc disk under NetBSD/mac*,
> then the answer is YES, as long as you're not expecting to boot from
> or run any binaries from the NetBSD/sparc disk.
> 
> The same applies the other way.

No, I just wondered if I could create NetBSD/SPARC bootable disk with
Mac.
I know that NetBSD/mac68k doesn't write disklabels that SPARC boot PROM
can understand, though as I told to other guys who gave me replies, I
have an experience that Silverlining, a MacOS formatter was able to
"read" disklabels of the drive which was formatted by SunOS format
command, so I assumed the possibility that it or other MacOS formatters
could "write" disklabels which boot PROM can understand.
Not sure such, "writing" function it had then, and still has now,
though...

Well, seems netboot is the best way.

Thanks anyway.

-- kaz-k