>for example, sparc or alpha can also boot from floppy if the machine has
>one, so install is as easy as i386.
>This is also true for platforms that can boot from CD; provided you can burn a
>CD image.

just as a data point...i installed netbsd on my sparc by booting from
the (scsi) zip drive.  prior to that, i was running it netbooted from
a sparc set that i cross compiled on my i386 laptop.  just to annoy
me, i wasn't able to actually build the install media on the laptop,
so i had to netboot the sparc to build the install media to install
netbsd...

talk about hoisting oneself up by one's bootstraps...  :)

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