Ok, it's a SS2 (as I said previously), running Solaris 2.3 (please no 
nasty flames ;-). I have a 1 gig disk that doesn't have alot more on it 
at the moment than Solaris (so a backup is not really needed since I can 
simply reinstall from CD if things get messed up).
Much thanks.

                                Yoshua Gilbert
                                yoshua@eskimo.com

On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

> > Is there a method of installing NetBSD 1.1 on a Sparc 2 with one drive 
> > that isn't attached to a network ?
> > The installation guide doesn't describe a way to do this. I don't really 
> 
> There aren't any tools to do this in a systematic way yet.
> 
> You don't say what OS is currently running on your machine.
> If it's NetBSD 1.0 you could proceed to carefully do the extraction
> of new binaries by hand:
> 	- start with booting a 1.1 kernel
> 	- extract /usr/lib and /usr/libexec (retain copies of the
> 	  existing shared libraries, so you can retrace your steps).
> 	- extract other binaries
> 	(verify that things keep working all the time).
> 
> If you currently run SunOS, things get even more complicated. If your disk
> is large enough you might be able to create a temporary partition
> copy the SunOS system to it and boot off it. Once you've done this,
> you can extract the NetBSD binaries to the partition(s) you've freed up.
> You probably need a working backup device for all of this...
> 
> -pk
>