At 9:10 AM +0900 9/10/02, Makoto Fujiwara wrote:
>Adam> I can get to the OpenFirmware prompt, set load-base and real-base as the
>Adam> install documents reccomend, but I can't actually boot from the floppy.
>
>( I don't think you need to set these variables until you boot from
>harddisk-installed NetBSD)
>
>Adam> I type in "boot fd:0" and it spits out "READ TIMEOUT" a few times, then
>...
>Adam> The floppy appears to be okay, I can mount it on another machine
>
>This sounds strange to me, because boot floppy, if made up correctly, may
>not be mounted with regular method.

It's a FFS-formatted floppy.  The boot OF command works because it 
has the bootxx code in place.  If you mount it on another machine it 
should have two files on it:  ofwboot.xcf, and some kind of netbsd 
kernel.  The latter is the installer kernel with the built-in memory 
file system.
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