Subject: Re: boot floppies?
To: None <msanders@confusion.net, port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/11/2001 02:04:48
|
| Any particular reason why there aren't boot floppies for sparc64?
|
| I'd like to install the latest snapshot on an Ultra 1 that has no
| CD-ROM, and setting things up to netboot would be inconvenient at
| best. 

Sun does not support booting from floppy, many machines cannot boot
from floppy, and it's difficult to fit 12+ MB of kernel onto a 
1.44MB floppy.

Eduardo