I'm trying to install NetBSD on my Sun Netra i but i'm not sure how to do it. I have burnt the .iso to disc, popped it in the cd drive and waited for it to post.... it just comes with the command prompt "ok"

Do i need to type a command to get it to install off the CD?
If there any tutorials on this matter please could you point me in their direction, as I have looked but cannot find any.

Thanks for any help

oh, btw, it's version 1.6 if that helps...

ok, i've installed it by typing "boot cdrom" (should've guessed really *rolls eyes*)
anyway, it's installed but now nothing works, when i type "boot sd0", "boot disk" or even "boot cdrom"... it just says that it cannot open
the device

Any ideas why this is? hehe

The Sun PROM labels SCSI disks in a really weird order. If I recall, it specificly reverses disk0 and disk3. Any way, what I did to boot OpenBSD was make sure I had set the environment variable for the kernel name (setenv boot-file bsd)* and also the right device (setenv boot-device disk1). Note that disk0, disk1, disk2, etc are usually aliased to the actual device (/sbus/esp/sd@0,0 , /sbus/esp/sd@1,0 , etc) so it's a lot easier using the diskn notation than figuring out the actual path to the device.

*This was for OpenBSD, if "bsd" is not the name of the file that the kernel loads from on NetBSD, you'll have to adjust accordingly.

If the setenv was right from before, I hate to say this, but it should be just:

"boot"

Like Chort said though, check through the builtin help on the PROM, it should be a little self-explanatory.

Cheers,

Finegan