Subject: Re: Is there any other way to install besides boot floppies?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/2004 01:56:29
In message <Pine.NEB.4.61.0411082237530.562@kerry.i8u.org>, Hisashi T Fujinaka 
writes:
>Is there doc on how to install using CD's? I even broke down and put
>dban (Darik's boot and nuke, the size of a floppy disk) onto CD to wipe
>out the HD. I'm willing to burn as many CD's as I need as long as I
>don't have to keep trying the frigging floppies.

I don't know of any formal documentation, but:

	# mkdir install
	# cp bootfloppy-big.fs install
	# mkisofs -R -o install.iso -b bootfloppy-big.fs -c boot.catalog install
	(...)
	# cdrecord (mumble) -data install.iso

should work on nearly every i386 in the world.

-s