should be fine.  on solaris I did:

dd if./i386/installation/floppies/boot-big.fs of=./boot-padded.fs
    ibs=2880k obs=2880k conv=sync

the flags are slightly different for netbsd, see the dd manpage.

-Dan


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

> It looks as if I must pad a boot-image to install it as a boot-image on a
> CD.  Somehow I had assumed that they were already padded.  Hm.
> 
> Is there any danger in tacking on NUL bytes to fill it out to a size that
> mkhybrid will accept?
> 
> 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com
>