Is there nothing NetBSD could do in this case to avoid the
	problem?


		David/absolute
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some email I received from Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no, sie wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > > How does one get NetBSD onto a Sun IPC these days?  I'm told
> > > the floppy driver is broken in -current - the boot.fs's that
> > > I've downloaded from snapshots have failed to find the kernel.
> > > If I attempt to boot a 1.4.1 or 1.4.2 floppy, it screws up when
> > > probing bwtw0 - see PR#10307.  Will a netboot of -current work?
> 
> The actual problem with this is, I believe, the ROM version (1.9) is
> inadequate to deal with the PCMCIA card.  I've put the card in an SS2
> and booted NetBSD without any trouble and booted NetBSD on the IPC in
> question (without that card installed) without any problems.  I've
> closed that PR.
> 
> Daren
>