Hi Markus,

you wrote in <9409281207.AA29700@rabe.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>:
>  Well, why don't they boot into normal DOS (from drive C:) and mount
> the CD and then start Linux off the CD? Why the Floppy? 

Why do they use MS-DOS or Windows ?
Never ask for the reason of anything related to PCs.

> I thought the floppy was necessary because the device node entries
> couldn't be written onto the CD and thus had to be moved onto the
> floppy.

Ok, let's go for the booting Amiga NetBSD CD.

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Matthias Scheler
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