>>Have you installed NetBSD on such a machine, _including_ the kernel
>>sources?  I don't think I own enough floppies to do it (I know, I could
>>rotate them ... but that's even more painful).  We _do_ want
>>people to run NetBSD, right?  If "install via floppy" is the answer,
>
>	Install via floppy isn't amazingly painful. Once you get
>enough of the system on (just "base", and you can get by with far
>less), you can fire up the serial port for a PPP link to finish the
>job in a lower bandwidth but more autonomous fashion. 

Still requires another machine (or a PPP dialup).  I don't mean to say
that it's not _possible_ (because we obviously got it working), it's
just something that perhaps the reasonably intelligent but non-wizard
user isn't willing to do.

--Ken