At 4:51 PM -0400 7/18/01, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>Apparently, just as how kernels on HFS work now, it works with kernels on
>MS-DOS.
>
>But, yes, the "floppies are unsupported" does imply that NetBSD/macppc
>can't write to an MS-DOS formatted floppy.

I think what happened is that some library was linked in so that we 
could have gzipped kernels, and kernels on a multitude of filesystem 
types.  I think it all came as some kind of package, perhaps even 
including some potential support for multiple-floppy boot images.  It 
wasn't a feature that was added in isolation.

Someone else (Bill Studenmund?) can say better than I.


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John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
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