I've done that in the past, but in this case the P70 is the only machine
I currently have that has a SCSI drive, so using the "ugly" method is out
of the question.  I was hoping there'd be a more elegant solution.

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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Brian Stark wrote:

> > I've got a IBM P70 386 w/6mb of memory.  Attempts to install NetBSD 1.3.3
> > on it stall out durring the probe faze when booting from
> > floppy--presumably due to low memory.  Is there another method of
> > installing on a machine with low memory?  I've scanned the lists and was
> 
> You can try my method if you have another computer, but it is ugly....
> 
> I have two systems: is a 386sx w/ 4MB RAM and the other is a Pentium with
> 128MB RAM. Whenever I do upgrades on the 386sx system, I move the disk in
> that machine to the Pentium system and then load the files from a 2nd disk
> in the Pentium system. Then, when I am done, I move the disk back to the
> 386sx system and re-install the disk IO had to remove from the Pentium
> system.
> 
> Truly ugly, but it works....
>