On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:13:53AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> A friend asked me if NetBSD supportd "swapinstall", i.e. boot install
> media from swap - seems it's possible at least when NetBSD (with swap
> partition and bootloader) is already installed:
> 
> 1) Keep NetBSD from writing to swap: "swapctl -U"
> 2) Copy bootfloppy to swap: "cat <boot-big.fs >/dev/wd0b"
> 3) "reboot"
> 4) interrupt 5-second-countdown
> 5) "boot hd0b:"
> 
> See it boot boot-big-fs and sysinst come up.

If you want that... you can copy your install kernel to /, reboot
and specify that from the bootloader. I do it all the time for old
i386 PC machines without PXE.

As for swap boot: port-amiga still does this, for example.
	-is

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