Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

[Tom Lane <tgl%sss.pgh.pa.us@localhost>]

joelp%sdf.org@localhost writes:
> I have a '98 Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop running a 2010 build of NetBSD
> 5.1. It runs great including X11. No tmux though :(
> So how do I get NetBSD 10 on this? There are some challenges.
> I have a pcmcia 3Com NIC and so internet access (IPv6 only!). But the FD
> adapter and the CDROM bay both died years ago.

Any chance that BIOS can do netboot?  It's a long shot perhaps,
but I've owned several non-Intel machines of approximately that
vintage that I've successfully netbooted NetBSD onto, for
reasons similar to yours: the other possibilities required
no-longer-functioning hardware.

			regards, tom lane