Subject: i386 upgrade w/o floppy
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Webmaster Jim <jspath@bcpl.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/22/2001 08:21:26
I'm trying to upgrade an old machine I have (AMD 486x133) that has been
running NetBSD 1.3.2.  Something seems to be wrong with the floppy
interface (2 drives have not been able to do i/o on the system).  I
thought perhaps I could put a netbsd-INSTALL 1.5 kernel on the root
filesystem and do "boot netbsd.INSTALL" but that gives a load error
(wrong file type, I think).

Can anyone suggest a workaround to get this machine upgraded?  It has a
working CD but I don't know how I could run the upgrade from it.

Thanks!

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