Subject: Re: boot floppy available!
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/29/1998 15:22:36
In message <1079.904320044@eterna.com.au>, matthew green writes:
>
>hi folks.  i got it working again, including new bootblock support
>for automatically booting /netbsd.gz (this code still awaiting review
>from pk).  i've put a new floppy image up as:
>	ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/incoming/mrg/boot13G.fs.gz

The compressed boot worked nicely.

>it should boot to a menu of install, shell, halt, where install will
>run sysinst, like previously, only now it should almost fully work!

The only problem I've noticed so far is that when doing a network
installation, the media type defaults to 'Ethernet', and then ifconfig
complains:

    ifconfig: unknown Ethernet media subtype: Ethernet

This is on an IPX with the built in le.