tim.walls@pa.press.net wrote:
> 
> Ho folks,
> 
> A quick question...  I see from the port news page on netbsd.org that
> support for the Indy is very much in the pipeline.  I would kill to get
> NetBSD on my Indy instead of the bloated monster that is Irix, so this
> definitely counts as Good Work Fellas ;-).
> 
> Anyway, I was wondering...  This 'ere Indy has a floppy drive -
> does anyone
> know if it is possible to boot it from such?  It's not obvious
> either way
> from the firmware (I know nothing about SGI firmware,) which appears to
> recognise it as just-another-SCSI-device.  I guess it should
> be - would this
> be a way of circumventing the netbooting palaver?  If so, any ideas what
> would be involved in building a boot disk?

Hi Tim,

The Indigo2 and Indy ports don't understand anything that's round at the moment ie. disks. There's no scsi driver for these machines yet (well, certainly not that I know of - someone, possibly Rafal,
might have started one). I'm afraid netbooting is your only option at the moment. I'm not sure about the stability of the port at the moment, since I have an Indigo 4000, not an Indigo2 or Indy, but
the Indy/Indigo2 port is pretty much "just out of the oven". Enjoy with care, basically.

Gerald