Subject: Re: Can a 3/80 boot from floppy?
To: Bob Keys <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@simon.sfsu.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/16/1999 14:57:30
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:

> I was looking at the size of the netbsd-rd kernel (970k) and was
> wondering if it was possible to floppy boot the machine, or if anyone
> had tried that?

The boot ROM cannot boot from a floppy.  Sun never bothered to put the
code in which could do so.

-J