On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:

> Anyone know if its possible to make a NetBSD bootable cd for sparcs?

You bet. Check out

    http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/netbsd/bootcd.html

> I'm off to hunt for an external floppy drive for this thing, but without
> much hope...

An external floppy? If the SS4 supports a floppy, I'd think there would
be an internal bay for one, in which case you can just use any PC 3.5"
HD floppy drive. (You'll have to eject manually, but other than the lack
of an eject servo, the drives appear to be identical.)

cjs
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