At 11:24 AM -0500 6/27/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>>
>> This is a quick question.
>>
>> Is there any reason I can't partition my entire HD as A/UX and boot from a
>> floppy disk that has the NetBSD booter on it?  The reason I ask is that
>>I only
>> have 340M and whenever I try to do a dual partition (MacOS/A/UX)
>> APSPowerTools forces me to have a 53.3M root partition which isn't big
>> enough to install everything on to.  I guess that's it.
>
>Mainly as we don't support the floppy drive at the moment. :-( There's
>been some preliminary work, but I think it's stalled for lack of
>documentation.

Since the booter is a MacOS program, it has all the floppy support it
needs. By the time NetBSD is running, and floppy support is no longer
available, the booter isn't still running.


Eric Damien Berna
eric@thiel.com