Ok I partitioned/newfsed the disks from within Solaris and then I
mounted / and /usr and copied over all of the files from all of the
disk sets, including netbsd.GENERIC (I also copied this over to /netbsd).

  I then created all of the devices in the 'std' section of MAKEDEV as
well as all of the [r]sd[0-1][a-h] devices with mknod.  I also made
sure to use numeric GIDs since the numbers are different from Solaris.

  I then did `installboot bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0' and then
rebooted.

  When I try to boot I get :

ok boot netbsd
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@2/disk@2,0:a 
NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
.Bad path
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
ok

  What does this cryptic error message mean?  

     Murray

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Andrei Petrov wrote:
% What I meant to say that you can try to do manual installation _under_
% solaris, i.e. having solaris running you prepare disk by solaris'
% newfs, mount. Then untar netbsd's sets there(kern.tgz, base.tgz and
% etc.tgz should be enought for try). You should make that disk bootable
% and try to boot netbsd from it. Don't know if /etc/MAKEDEV will work
% properly, if not you will need to create devices manullly.
% You will need /dev/console and /dev/[r]st1[a-h], may be more.
% Make sure you have console.
% What I don't know is how different netbsd's and solaris' ffs are.
% If netbsd can (at least) read from solaris's ffs than
% you will have pretty much everything needed to re-install using netbsd.
% I'd reinstall to avoid possible ffs incompatibilities.
% 
% Netboot is fairly simple if you have another unixbox nearby.
% 
% --
% 	Andrey