I've just built a new kernel with pcvt to put on my Toshiba notebook
(that pccons?) was frying the sceen on...

Now I did not want to boot the old kernel so after trimming enough
stuff to get a kernel to fit on a KC floppy, I went to the notebook.

It booted fine so I said "copy", "wd0a".

I knew I was in serious trouble right away...
I had powered the system off in a hurry to save damaging the screen,
so I expected a few complaints from fsck... but not 100's

Next it reported that it could not mount /dev/wd0a - operation
unsuported by device?

Oops.  In desperation I tried booting from the harddisk - but /netbsd
was one of the files blown away...

Ok, time to try and built an up to date KC floppy.

I've visited /sys/arch/i386/floppy and made everything in there (I
have some diffs for bin/sh/input.c so that the -DNO_HISTORY works)

I could not find any doco about the procedure for building the floppy
images and an optimistic attempt to "make" in distrib/i386/floppies
told be I did not have crunchgen.

Anyway I've updated the stuff in /sbin on my old KC floppy, but the sh
that I built in /sys/arch/i386/floppy/sh even after stripping is 190k
cf. 77k for the shell that was there, so I've left /bin alone.

When I get home tonight I'll try with this floppy to get a kernel back
onto the hard disk...

--sjg