Subject: Re: Quick Question
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Christopher R. Bowman <crb@Glue.umd.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/28/1997 03:00:15
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, 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.

No, no, no you misunderstand (or maybe I do, but I don't think so) the orriginal
poster wanted to put the macos and a booter on a flopy, boot the flopy and
use that to boot NetBSD which is entirely possible (or should be)

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