Greetings,

I'm looking into installing a FreeOS on an old laptop I have lying around,
and am considering NetBSD, but couldn't find a listed install producedure
for my (somewhat unusual) situation, namely that the machine has no floppy
drive, or standard floppy controller.  I can write to the HD from another
machine, but I don't want to go through configuration with a completely
different set of hardware than I will ultimately be using.

At the moment, the best solution I've come up with is to create a 16MB or so
DOS partition, with card and socket services and FTP, and install Debian
Linux by FTP, but I'd really rather use a BSD variant.

I'd appreciate any pointers people have as to ways to run sysinst w/o using
the boot floppies.

I know that there's a dosboot.com somewhere in base.tgz, but from what I can
see it's designed for netbooting.  Can I use this?  How?

Thanks for any help,

-pete (peter@funyellow.com)