A friend asked me if NetBSD supportd "swapinstall", i.e. boot install
media from swap - seems it's possible at least when NetBSD (with swap
partition and bootloader) is already installed:

1) Keep NetBSD from writing to swap: "swapctl -U"
2) Copy bootfloppy to swap: "cat <boot-big.fs >/dev/wd0b"
3) "reboot"
4) interrupt 5-second-countdown
5) "boot hd0b:"

See it boot boot-big-fs and sysinst come up.


   - Hubert