Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> While we're on the subject of booting, I came across
> this in the INSTALL.txt file in the NetBSD-3.1:
>
> Creating boot floppies
>
>      Fetch the bootable bootfs image from
>
>           
> .../NetBSD-3.1/vax/installation/bootfs/boot.fs
>
>      and gunzip it.  It is a 1.2MB bootable image that
> will boot from any
>      floppy of size 1.2MB and bigger.
>
> This doesn't work. For one, gunzip won't gunzip it,
> and also - boot.fs is a 2400 kilobyte file, and I
> don't see how that could decompress into a 1200
> kilobyte file. (unless it's a really, really bad
> compression scheme).
>
> Am I missing something?
>   
Hi,

hm, I think you are trying to do something that noone has done for a 
very long time :-)

But for the floppy; try to split the 2400k file into two pieces, IIRC it 
will ask you to
put in the second floppy when it comes to the end of the first one.

-- Ragge