Subject: Re: port-atari/33351: Cannot find atarti/.../installation/floppies/boot.fs on your site, or the CD
To: None <port-atari-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/2006 05:50:01
The following reply was made to PR port-atari/33351; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
To: Rick Nekus <solarux@hotmail.com>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-atari/33351: Cannot find atarti/.../installation/floppies/boot.fs on your site, or the CD
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 06:44:52 +0100

 > anyway, the ways it sounds in your instructions below,&nbsp;is that instead
 > of "booting" directly from the floppy, the kernel,... is loaded (via
 > loadbsd.ttp) into memory and the sysinst is started from that ?
 
 Yes.  You should also be able to copy the TOS binaries, kernel and fs images
 to a folder on the hard disk and use them from there.  That might be easier
 if you have them on CD.
 
 > Along with the "RamDisk" Quick installation using CD as the media in
 > the NetBSD 3.0 installation/doc, and with the boot method you recommend    
 > below this will work barring any hardware/driver problems. ?
 
 Yes.  It should do.
 
 J
 
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