Subject: Re: (fwd) NetBSD/macppc: how to make the boot floppy?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/05/2000 14:10:19
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> The instructions for installing NetBSD/macppc say to use the boot floppy.
>  It does not say how to CREATE the boot floppy. 
> 
> The image on the FTP site (boot.fs) is not recognized as a DiskCopy disk image.
>  Am I supposed to use BSD to create the BSD installer floppy, like some insane
>  chicken and egg problem?

You can use the suntar program. It has an option to overwrite a floppy
with a file - I think it is the write sectors menu option.

Take care,

Bill