Subject: Erroneous installation documention for 1.4
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/24/1999 20:03:04
Did anyone actually walk through the installation documentation for 1.4 ?

In particular this paragraph seems rather flawed:

No matter whioch installation medium you choose, you'll need to have a floopy
disk (either 1.2M or 1.44M will work).  You'll put the boot floppy image
("boot1.fs" and "boot2.fs" for 1.44MB floppies, "boot-tiny.fs" fpr 1.2M
floppies) onto this disk, which contains software to install or upgrade
your NetBSD system.  Note that the "boot-tiny.fs" image is tailored for
"small" machines, this install image does not have drivers for PCI, PCMCIA,
EISA or SCSI (i.e. ISA-only), but can be used on machines with only 4MB of
RAM.

from an ftp directory:
-rw-r--r--  1 0  0  1474560 May 12 00:54 boot-unstr1.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 0  0  1445926 May 12 00:56 boot-unstr1.fs.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 0  0    57344 May 12 00:54 boot-unstr2.fs
-rw-r--r--  1 0  0    39877 May 12 00:56 boot-unstr2.fs.gz

Lets just hope others can work this out and that on the Usenix CD-ROM they
appear better than they do on the one I had burnt recently (under
Windows names show up as "BOOT-UNS.000", "BOOT-UNS.001", "BOOT-UNS.FS",
"BOOT-UNS.GZ", "BOOT.FS" and "BOOT_FS.GZ").

This install document reads like an essay, not a step by step guide on
installing netbsd...

Lets hope Usenix people can work this one out without too much trouble!