>However, I took the disk packs, attached them to my linux box, booted up
>an install disk from NetBSD/x86 floppies and dd'ed the disk image
>tarball to the packs.  My /260 couldn't be happier with this, and it
>installed from that image like a charm.  Have you tried this?
It's very pleasing to hear that you finally installed it!
But how did you attach the disk packs to your linux box?
Could you tell out the details?

btw, I have no SCSI device on my PC.