On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:42:35AM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> I just formatted a 1.44MB floppy as MS-DOS and copied ofwboot.xcf and 
> netbsd.ram.gz onto it.  I renamed the latter to netbsd.gz.
> 
> It boots on an OF 1.0.5 machine with
> 
> boot fd:1,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.gz
> 
> No DiskCopy, no SunTar, no nothing, straight into the installer. 
> Obviously ofwboot got a little smarter somewhere along the line.

Neat. I think we want disk images because the format of that command
will be different for different versions of OF, whereas with our
boot floppy, all anyone has to do to boot off a floppy (if they have
one, of course) is boot fd:0.

Hrm. On the other hand, I  think the above syntax will work just
fine with OF 2.0f1 (not that I've tested, mind you), the only other
OF on a machine likely to have a floppy drive.

No matter what, telling people to write a disk image to a floppy
(especially if they can use Disk Copy to do it) is far more newbie
friendly than your technique. (Not that those sans floppy drive
aren't going to have to figure out some rendition of the above
anyway, though.)

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