On 1043536114 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Emil wrote:
>
>Hi.
>I've recently come into possession of a Toshiba Satellite 105c, and I'm 
>trying to install NetBSD on it.  However, the machine has no CD-drive, and 
>the boot floppy image in the i386/installation/floppy/ directory doesn't 
>seem to recognize the external one I've got plugged in to the parallel 
>port. (I'm using bootlap1.fs and bootlap2.fs)

When I am in that situation, I generally hook up a null-modem to
the serial port and setup slip to another machine.  Then you have
IP and can do an FTP install.  It still takes a very long time,
but at least it doesn't require much in the way of human intervention.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/