>It seems to me a lot is missing from these floppies. I cannot find load_fd nor
>mread, copy_kernel does not make my harddisk bootable (though it does copy
>/netbsd to wd0a), though that may be because I cannot extract the tars b/c I
>seem unable to read other than the boot floppies.

"Load_fd" (note the capitalization) is defined in the .commonutils file.  It
definately does exist ... perhaps you typed "load_fd" instead?  It uses the
MS-DOS filesystem in the kernel to access the floppy drive, so it does _not_
use mread.

You are correct in that copy_kernel does not make the HD bootable; the
install or upgrade programs are supposed to do that.  Did you run them?

--Ken