[NMLUG] netbsd sparc install problems

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I've got a headache from googling all night trying to get netbsd installed on this stupid sparcstation5/170 (sun4m).  Time to ask the big guns.
 
I've burned 2 NetBSD CD's (sparccd.iso and multi-cd1.iso) burned at 4x as suggested.
 
I can use STOP-A and "boot cdrom" to get the install process started.  Then I run into problems.  Install recognizes all of my devices (cd0, cd1, cd2, sd0, cd3, cd4, cd5, md0).  Then asks me "Installation meduim to load the additional utilities from:".  My choices are cdrom,tape,floppy.  I can select CD, insert the multi-cd1 disk into the cd-drive that the boot cd was in (I have a 6 cd tower) and select the default [/dev/cd0a] and get a mount error.
 
mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not supported by device.
 
Any pointers out there?
 
I would certainly entertain the idea of doing a netinstall (I found instructions on how to use a windows machine as a tftp server) but the instructions called for downloading "the tree" without specifying what "the tree" was.
 
Thanks for any advice anybody can give me.

		
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