>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Gustafsson <gson@nominum.com> writes:
    Andreas> Michael Richardson writes:
    >> I have tried to build netboot.bin, which I think I load somehow from a
    >> DOS boot floppy (with "dosload"? where is that).

    Andreas> If you want to use a DOS floppy, you need to build netboot.com,
    Andreas> not netboot.bin.  See
    Andreas> <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.i386.html>.

  Thanks. I see that doing "make netboot.com" works well. I didn't get it
built because of the previous errors, but I noticed in boot/README that
it spoke about using dosload.

    Andreas> In addition to the solutions listed there, I offer an
    Andreas> additional, little-known one: you can load netboot from a native
    Andreas> NetBSD boot floppy and have it load the kernel over the network,
    Andreas> by building "netboot.sym" and installing it on a disklabeled
    Andreas> floppy using "installboot".  -- Andreas Gustafsson,

  Aha, I knew that I had heard something like this, likely from you, but I
could not find the message.

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