Hi,

Ive managed to install it on an old Toshiba from floppies. 

If u chop the base.tgz and other packages and then put peaces on
floppyes, sysinst will keep asking for more even if u have supplied all
parts. So at that point u have to quit the install process. But as a
side effect U'll have all parts seating in /usr/INSTALL : ). So just go
there and do:

cat base.aa base.ab ... base.ap > base.tgz

and U'll get whole base.tgz package. Repeat that for all packages u
want. Also if that doesn't work, u can always manually copy the peaces.

Make sure you read the "Manual install" page (it is somewhere in docs),
and with little trickery U'll get it running.

The only drawback to this approach is that its PAINFULLY slow. Free
afternoon is a must.

Regards
Milos

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:08:34 -0800
Emil <ewilke@cwnet.com> 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)
> 
> My initial plan was to chop the kernel into the 235k chunks, but sysinst 
> wants ten pieces out of a 1.95 meg file, and that just won't cut it.  I 
> tried cutting it into smaller pieces, but then base.tgz has more pieces 
> than sysinst wants.
> 
> So my question is this:  What can I do to access the external CD drive?
> Or possibly:  Is there a way to trick sysinst into believing I've given it 
> everything it wants without having parts of the kernel and system missing?
> 
> --Emil