Michael Alan Hobart writes:

 > I was wondering if someone had a one-floppy installation procedure for
 > NetBSD (i386).  I would like to put NetBSD on my laptop but am currently
 > stumped at how to get around the two-floppy drive procedure. 

I installed an i386 machine recently with 1.0_BETA, and used only one
floppy drive and two floppy disks. My job was made considerably easier
by the presence of an ethernet and NFS servers. I don't mean to be
cheesy, I realise you probably won't have ethernet on your laptop, but
it illustrates that network installs work well. The generic kernel on
the boot floppy does have SLIP in it, you could use that instead. (As
an aside, I'd recommend ftp'ing the files over the slip link rather
than NFS - this is all in the install notes).  Yes, it will probably
be slow, but you can just leave it alone to run, and personally I'd
much prefer that to jockeying dozens of floppies.

Other options, depending on hardware, may include pulling the hard
drive out of the laptop and installing NetBSD on it in another
machine. I've done this a couple of times, too, though not for NetBSD.

--
Dan.