On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Andrew Steven Ball wrote:

:   AB> Is it possible to boot NetBSD/i386 1.5 from a FAT
:     > partition?
:
:   MB> Yes, with bootdos.com (or maybe it's dosboot.com, I
:     > don't remember)...You need a kernel...
:
: Thanks, I've got a copy of that.  Is there anything special
: I would need to do in order to make the kernel mount
: boot-big.fs and start an install?

You don't want a .fs if you will be using dosboot and want to do an install.
Instead, you want .../NetBSD-1.5/binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz (a kernel
with the ramdisk embedded).  The .fs are for real floppy media booting.

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