> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:39:47 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> 
> matthew green writes:
> >    (Can the Sparc port be booted from floppy, too?)
> > 
> > you can boot a sparc from a floppy.  i'm still working on getting
> > netbsd to work from a floppy, though.  unfortunately, i don't think
> > it will be ready for the 1.1 release -- but certainly for the 1.2
> > release.
> 
> Its a shame it won't be ready for 1.1, because, as I said, I'm not
> sure the Wasabi Informatics NetBSD CD is going to be bootable on
> Sparcs -- having a floppy image on the CD would make bringing it up
> much easier. It will have the released Sparc binaries, though.
> 
> Perry

All you should need is a diskette image with the boot program on it,
right?  (The boot program could load the kernel from CDROM...)

Gordon