Subject: Re: Making a boot floppy!
To: Michael Wolfson <mw34@cornell.edu>
From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 04/14/1999 11:01:40
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> I just borrowed a 9122 floppy drive. Just thought y'all should know that
> you can indeed boot NetBSD off floppy disk!
>
> You'll need to write the floppy under HP-UX, of course, but once it's
> written, it'll load the NetBSD bootloader and you can then netboot.
>
> mediainit -v -i 2 -f 3 /dev/rdsk/c7d0s0
> dd if=SYS_UBOOT of=/dev/dsk/c7d0s0 bs=1k
>
> If anyone's desperate, I can make a few floppies while I still have the
> 9122.
Any idea if it'd fit on a disk from a 9121 and if it'd boot?
Vince.
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