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I know this seems like an odd request, but well, it is.  I wrote about a
week or so ago about a possible way to boot a Multia off of a floppy and
have it load its filesystems off of an IDE drive, which SRM will not
boot off of natively.  Well, I've finally found some time to look into
it again, since no consensus was reached.  It looks as if the only way
to do this is with a floppy which contains the NetBSD/alpha bootloader,
as well as a NetBSD kernel.  Unfortunately for me, the GENERIC kernel
has long ago overflowed what a single floppy can handle.  I don't have
any other NetBSD/alpha machines available to do this myself.  I need
someone to compile a custom kernel against netbsd-1-5-BETA tagged
syssrc bits and send it to me so that I can get this machine
bootstrapped.  I tried booting off of install floppies and dropping to
the shell, but half of the system binaries give errors when run under
that limited environment.  I've got a chicken and egg problem.  I've
attached a kernel config file.  If someone would be kind enough to send
me a compiled kernel privately I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

-- 
Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a
good example."  --  Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

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