In some mail I received from Perry E. Metzger, sie wrote
> 
> 
> Darren Reed writes:
> > Second, what would be required to get NetBSD to boot from a CD-ROM on a PC
> > which supports booting from a CD-ROM ?
> 
> mkisofs supports El Torrito. Basically, El Torrito puts a floppy image
> on the CD and simulates a floppy with it during boot. Yeah, its gross.
> 
> > Yesterday, I installed a PC for the first time without using a
> > floppy by putting my NT Workstation 4.0 CD-ROM into the CD drive and
> > had it boot from there.  If only NetBSD were so easy to install...
> 
> It woudln't require that much effort -- we already have boot floppies,
> and mkisofs could just slurp those.

blech.  I was wondering if you could do something like mount isofs as /
and then union mount mfs on top of that so you can populdate /dev, and
write to /tmp, etc.

Darren