Subject: Re: install problem
To: coriolinus <coriolinus@gmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/03/2005 21:46:51
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:42:41AM +0900, coriolinus wrote:
> I'd love to, but I don't own any floppy drives, and I'd rather not buy
> one for the sole purpose of installing this OS. Is there any way I
> could patch a kernel binary into an installation ISO so I could just
> install from a (new) CD?

You can use the boot-big.fs image to create a bootable CD (with mkisofs,
it's -b. For other tools I don't know). This CD will only have the boot kernel,
not the install files but it's not a problem: you can swap CDs once the kernel
is loaded.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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