Would dosboot work?

Peter Seebach wrote:
> Okay, this is a little specialized:
> 
> Imagine a machine which can't boot from CD, and has no floppy drive.  However,
> it has a functional network interface under DOS.  Can I install NetBSD on
> this?
> 
> To be more specific, out of idle curiousity (and because it cost negative ten
> dollars), I picked up a PC emulator other than VirtualPC; it's called
> "RealPC", and it's the guts of SoftWindows.  I'm using it on a Mac laptop
> which has no floppy drive, and a USB floppy doesn't appear to fool it.
> So, no floppy.  It can't boot from CD, either.  However, I can boot DOS,
> and I can copy files into the DOS drive space, so I could have a filesystem
> with distribution sets... if only there were a convenient way to start the
> install from here.  Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> -s
> 


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