Subject: i386 docs on floppy installation are wrong
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ian Frechette <frechett@colorado.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/30/1994 15:37:59
>From the i386/INSTALL file.

	NOTE THAT THE NetBSD 1.0 DISTRIBUTION DOES _NOT_ SUPPORT
	INSTALLATION VIA FLOPPY ON MACHINES WITH ONE FLOPPY DRIVE.
	If you only have one floppy drive, it is recommended that you
	install/upgrade the minimum sets (i.e. base10 and etc10 for
	installation, base10 only for upgrade) via another method,
	then load and extract the remaining sets by hand.  This will
	be fixed in a future release.

Additionally,
     Count the number of "set_name.xx" files that make up the
     distribution sets you want to install or upgrade.  You will
     need one fifth that number of 1.2M floppies, or one sixth that
     number of 1.44M floppies.  You should only use one size of
     floppy for the install or upgrade procedure; you can't use
     some 1.2M floppies and some 1.44M floppies.  Additionally,
     note that you can't boot and load the distributions from the
     same floppy drive.  In other words, if you're booting the
     install floppies from one drive, you will be reading these
     floppies from the _other_, so be sure to use the right type
     of floppies!

>From these two paragraphs it sounds like it expects one to have two
floppy drives of the same type.  I haven't had that since the AT. ;)
It needs to be made clear whether it's possible to install off one
floppy drive of either type, or if you can make the boot/upgrade
disk one type and have all the set_name.xx files on a different type disk.
Eg. boot off 5 1/4 drive.. read off 3 1/2 inch drive.


	ian frechette