On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Greg Earle wrote:

> The bottom line, though, is that I don't think it's going to be practical
> in the long run to tell people "Oh yeah, you can run NetBSD under Virtual PC,
> but only if you run NetBSD-current with an SSTO floppy install disk that's
> had a custom SSTO kernel built for it with PCI configuration mode 1 forced".
> 
> I think I'm gonna declare defeat at this point.  My work PC is running 1.2
> and not 1.2G/current, so I can't cook up a custom SSTO floppy to use in
> place of the latest snapshot one.  And as long as the floppy support still
> sucks, I can't see being able to load any software at all.  (Recall that
> after I'd put the 4 "kern" files on a DOS floppy and tried to continue the
> install, I again got fd driver hard error reading fsbn NN errors when trying
> to read the kern files off of the floppy.)  When reading the documentation,
> Connectix makes sure that you know that it doesn't support using anything
> other than DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 on this thing.  And their notes
> on using other OS's only mentions stuff like OS/2 Warp.  Not a peep about
> Open/Free/NetBSD or BSDi in sight.  I don't even think it mentions Linux ...
> 
> So Virtual PC 1.0, for the moment at least, joins Apple's MAE 3.0update4
> on my emulator scrap heap, yet another victim of "It works perfectly right -
> well, 98% of the time".  Sigh.
> 
	I'd be happy enough to run off a NetBSD-current boot floppy with a
	custom kernel if you'd like  :)

	I'll start sup running when I get home :)