"Michael van Elst" <mlelstv@serpens.de> wrote in message 
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> Z_kline@hotmail.com ("Zachary Kline") writes:
>
>>I saw the following in installboot(8):
>>installboot -v -o timeout=30 /dev/wd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
>
> You probably need a much larger timeout, because qemu does
> something wrong with the timer emulation. I use timeout=9999.
    How would I go about setting this?  I tried with my install floppy again 
and still get a zero-second timeout, which is useless.
Thanks much,
Zack.