Subject: Re: Installing without floppies
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/27/2000 22:20:21
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 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.

Just out of curiousity, what happens after the kernel is loaded -- doesn't
it need to load the root filesystem from somewhere?

Jared