> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the next couple of weeks I'll be getting a SS1+ and I'm going to
> install NetBSD/sparc on it.  I'm wondering a couple of things;
> should I install from the binaries in the NetBSD-current dir on
> ftp.netbsd.org (I just ftp'ed the snapshot binary file) or from
> the 1.0 binaries? 

Use the snapshot it's stable, one thing I found is that unless boot-file is
set to netbsd it will panic as it offers the choice of root and swap
disks. Beats me why.

> 
> Also, the X11R6 distrib with NetBSD-current is corrupted - I can't
> gzip -d the tar.gz file... has anyone else seen this?  Is there anywhere
> other than ftp.netbsd.org that I might try to get a working one?S

Get the full source tree and apply mrg's patch, Matthew where is it again?
:)


> 
> Ben (who is excited at the prospect of *finally* getting a sparc of his
> own to play with ;-)
> 

yeah it rocks!

Some advice, if you have access to a machine that you can setup
as an nfs server, do that, it is far simpler to install netbsd/sparc this
way, install mini root and mount the partition with the tars on it. It
saves mucho hairo :) You can put statical;ly linked binaries in this
directory, like gzip, more, df ... and use them to aid the install.


Regards,
Neil.

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Neil J. McRae.                                       Demon Internet
neil@demon.net