Subject: Booting Sparcs from floppy
To: matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/09/1995 08:39:47
matthew green writes:
>    (Can the Sparc port be booted from floppy, too?)
> 
> you can boot a sparc from a floppy.  i'm still working on getting
> netbsd to work from a floppy, though.  unfortunately, i don't think
> it will be ready for the 1.1 release -- but certainly for the 1.2
> release.

Its a shame it won't be ready for 1.1, because, as I said, I'm not
sure the Wasabi Informatics NetBSD CD is going to be bootable on
Sparcs -- having a floppy image on the CD would make bringing it up
much easier. It will have the released Sparc binaries, though.

Perry