Subject: Re: is any floppy boot possible ?
To: vincent roukine <starook@caramail.com>
From: Eric Damien Berna <eric@thiel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/22/1998 08:35:10
At 6:47 AM -0500 10/22/98, vincent roukine wrote:
>Can I run my mac under NetBSD by simply booting on a NetBSD
>boot floppy disk ? (without running booter)

No.  NetBSD/mac68k will not boot from a floppy, because NetBSD needs
some aspects of the system to be initialized properly by MacOS.

You can setup a floppy disk with a simplified system and the booter, but
there isn't enough room on a floppy disk to hold enough of NetBSD and the
MacOS to boot only from the floppy.

Eric Damien Berna
eric@thiel.com

NetBSD 1.3.1 on a Mac IIcx
NetBSD-current on a Mac Quadra 950