Subject: Re: port-atari/33351: Cannot find atarti/.../installation/floppies/boot.fs on your site, or the CD
To: None <port-atari-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/2006 05:50:01
The following reply was made to PR port-atari/33351; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
To: Rick Nekus <solarux@hotmail.com>
Cc:
Subject: Re: port-atari/33351: Cannot find atarti/.../installation/floppies/boot.fs on your site, or the CD
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 06:44:52 +0100
> anyway, the ways it sounds in your instructions below, is that instead
> of "booting" directly from the floppy, the kernel,... is loaded (via
> loadbsd.ttp) into memory and the sysinst is started from that ?
Yes. You should also be able to copy the TOS binaries, kernel and fs images
to a folder on the hard disk and use them from there. That might be easier
if you have them on CD.
> Along with the "RamDisk" Quick installation using CD as the media in
> the NetBSD 3.0 installation/doc, and with the boot method you recommend
> below this will work barring any hardware/driver problems. ?
Yes. It should do.
J
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