Subject: Re: Making a boot floppy
To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/26/2005 11:02:10
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:47:50 -0700, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:10:54 -0500 (EST), Gary Thorpe
> <gathorpe79@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The details are in installboot(8) with excerpts below.
> 
> Ahh. I should have known. But it might be nice to update those other
> info sources which are incorrect. I'll knock on the door of the doc
> list to see if they can help.
> 
> This also might be nice to get into the diskless page for machines
> that can boot from floppy (probably i386 and amd64 for now).

That did it. The only thing that threw me was the boot loader tries to
boot fd0a:netbsd first, so I interrupted it and typed fd0a:netbsd.gz
which worked.

But the bootloader tries netbsd.gz if it doesn't find netbsd, so this
thing will autoboot which is great.

Thanks.

Andy