On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:17:45AM +0200, David Ferlier wrote:
: 
: If you just want NetBSD (good choice ;-), then you can do like i did
: with my "no-floppy-no-bios-who-supports-2.88m-img-bootable-cds" laptop.
: Do a dd with the traditionnal 2.88 img (i think this is bootbig.fs)
: directly on /dev/wd0c (if i remember well). I know you first need to go
: in an OS to do that, but you surely get to boot any unix os, or maybe
: you already got one on the disk.
: 
: After that, remove the cd, reboot and the disk should jump on the netbsd
: bootloader). Hit enter and the kernel boots.
: 
: Does it help you or not ? :-)

Actually, scratch my previous response.  This still won't help me.  The
problem is that I need an image other than boot-big.fs.  No pcmcia
support means I have neither cdrom nor network support, so I have no
viable method of installation.  8(

        --Jerry

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