Assuming linux uses SunOS compatible disklabels (if it doesn't
	then the prom would complain when you tried to boot, so thats
	probably a safe bet :) you should be able to partition the
	drive under linux, copy the miniroot to the swap partition, and
	just go from there...

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Piranha wrote:

> Hey y'all,
> I've got a SPARCstation 1 I want to run NetBSD on. It is currently running
> Linux but I just added an empty hard disk to it. Is is possible to copy
> the miniroot to a partition on the empty drive and then boot it,
> proceeding to extract the sets from the CDROM? I read the install notes
> and I didn't see much about this process....
> 
> la Piranha
> 
>