> What i did was download
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs
> and
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/iso/i386cd.iso

For whatever it's worth, i386cd.iso should already have been bootable, I
think.  You should only have needed boot-big.fs if you were building your
CD from the various .tgz sets.  Probably boot-big.fs was already used as
the boot-image by the i386cd.iso.  But, it's a moot point as long as you
ended up with a bootable NetBSD CD...(^&

I'm sorry if my original message wasn't clear on that point.

In any case, thanks for summarizing the MS-WINDOWS side of the
process.  It should help the next time that someone asks that
question.  (^&


> Source of Boot image data selected option Image file(with boot-big.fs)
> and added i386cd.iso as the content of the cd.

It's not 100% clear to me whether your bootable CD now has the fileSYSTEM
described by i386cd.iso, or if it has the FILE i386cd.iso on it.  
Properly burned, the NetBSD install CD should contain a bunch of new files
(mostly *.tgz files, I think), in a layer or few of directories.  You
should be able to examine the new CD from your MS-WINDOWS NT system.

If you instead have the i386cd.iso FILE on your new CD, all is not lost.  
If this is the case, I think that we can help you still use the CD as-is.  
(Though it would be easiest, perhaps, to try to get the CD burner to
create a proper NetBSD install CD...)

However, from your ADSL-related question on netbsd-help, I assume that you
have now successfully installed NetBSD on one of your machines, so perhaps
all is well.  (^&  Alas, I cannot help with ADSL/DHCP, but someone will
probably have an answer.


> Burn it and viola! bootable NetBSD from Windows platform :)
> i gonna attempt to install it on my twinhead PIII 600mhz notebook as well just for
> testing purposes.

Good luck.

Read one of the i386 INSTALL documents, by the way, and/or keep it handy
during installation.  INSTALL is a bit lengthy, but it should answer most,
or all, of the questions that you might have during a normal installation.


> you guys have been of great help and i am totally overwhelmed by the support i am
> getting in less than 24hrs of my posting!
> You guys totally rock and are better than those penguins over at linux

I think that part of this comes from the fact that the NetBSD community is
smaller.  That was actually one of the draws for me when I was first
considering NetBSD, LINUX, or FreeBSD.  (It wasn't the only reason for me
to choose NetBSD, or even the main one, but it was a definite plus in my
book.)


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu