Very cool news.  I don't have a PC, but I do have VirtualPC running on my
Mac.  I could test this to see if it works there, if anyone is interested.

-Randy

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| Randy Carpenter             http://www.rune.net
| The Rune Network                 Wapakoneta, OH
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Dennis Chernoivanov wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:32:47 +0100
> From: Dennis Chernoivanov <cdi@mawhrin.net>
> To: port-cobalt@netbsd.org
> Subject: NetBSD/cobalt restore CD
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have created a NetBSD/cobalt installation/restore CD that works pretty much
> like the one provided by Cobalt, i.e. it boots NetBSD/i386 1.6 from CDROM,
> configures available network interface and fires up all daemons that are
> necessary for netbooting the cobalt box. The netboot environment is configured
> to launch the installation which initializes cobalt's hard drive, unpacks 1.6
> tarballs and reboots the system when everything is done, essentially bringing
> the box into a fresh state with NetBSD 1.6 installed. The CD image can be
> downloaded from
>
>  http://only.mawhrin.net/~cdi/netbsd/cobalt/image.iso.gz [ca. 90Mb]
>
> For curious, here is the script I have used to build the CD (tarball also
> includes the kernels):
>
>  http://only.mawhrin.net/~cdi/netbsd/cobalt/mkcd.tgz [ca. 4Mb]
>
> Note that you must build /both/ i386 and cobalt ditros in order to use the
> script.
>
> I would highly appreciate any input on this work.
>
> SY,
> --cdi
>