On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > 
> > 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)
> 
> Re-reading, you're correct. But I kinda read ahead and wondered how to actually
> install on such a beast. W/ no MacOS disk space, there's no place to put the
> tar files from which to install. You could take the drive to another computer
> and install there, but if you only have one, chances are it's internal. :-)
> 

Think EtherTalk mounted volume.  Though I think some else's suggestion was better
make a macos partiton of whatever size, and have mkfs convert it to MacBSD.

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