Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> I have an old laptop (a Thinkpad 701) with an external scsi cabinet, 
> and a netbsd-supported pcmcia adapter.  There's no room on the internal 
> disk for netbsd and windows, and I can't boot from the scsi disk, as 
> far as I know.  Is there any way to run netbsd from the scsi drive?  
> Perhaps with a kernel (built with root on sd0a) on a floppy?  on dos?

Put the kernel on a "boot partition" on the small internal hard drive,
and hard wire root on sd0a in the config file? Then all you need on
the hard drive is a few meg for the NetBSD kernel.

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