On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 07:43  pm, Randy Beaudreault wrote:

>> Greetings, all.
>>
>> Does NetBSD/mac68k have no floppy support still? When I try to mount 
>> the floppy I get:
>>
>> 	mount_ffs: /dev/fd on /floppy: Block device required
>>
>> How do I supply a "Block device"?
>>
>> If I cannot mount a floppy from within NetBSD, is there a Mac OS tool 
>> I can use which will copy the raw floppy image from NetBSD/i386 so 
>> that I can boot the computer I was recently given?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> ~ Matthew
>>
>> "Whoot!" for NetBSD 1.5.2, by the way. :]
>
> Yep, you use Disk Copy.  That will copy raw floppy images of any kind.  
> You may have to change the type and creator codes to get it to 
> recognize your downloaded image though.

Thanks kindly.

That's worked fine, thing boots it, so I suppose I'll go for an install. 
How exciting.

Went out snooping tonight; found a monitor in a bin, still looking for a 
serial keyboard, though.

By your response, can I take it that floppies aren't supported in 
NetBSD/mac68k, still? (Just like to be certain...)

All the best.

~ Matthew