Don Yuniskis wrote:

>>Sounds as though CD-ROM might be the preferred option then.
>>Am I right in thinking that I need to get a CD-ROM drive
>>that supports 512 byte sectors, and set the ID to 6?
>>
>>If I went the floppy route (least cost option), would I be
>>able to write the boot diskette(s) on a PC with dd?  The
>>
> 
> Assuming it is running *BSD, etc.  You can also create them
> using DOS based tools.  (though make sure to use *good*
> floppies since I don't think either of these approaches actually
> does a formal *verify* afterwards)

Also works well from linux... That's how I built the floppies I first 
used to install bsd on my IPC... netbsd lost that bid - refused to boot 
all the way, it's running OpenBSD at this point.

-Gerald