Subject: Re: Installing from hard drive?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/26/2001 20:55:10
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:28:24PM -0600, 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?

Yes, you can get dosboot.com (it's in /usr/mdec on a NetBSD/i386 install,
you should also find it in NetBSD-1.5/i386/installation/) to load the
kernel from dos. Just need to put dosboot.com and a install kernel with ramdisk
on your dos filesystem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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