OK, thanks for this info, guess I just misunderstood something from the 
man page. I'll try to install the bootstrap, then...

However, I've ran into quite a lot of compiling problems. I realise now 
that the proper way of installing pine is through sh build neb, but the 
script still seems to freeze at some point. And when I tried to run a 
make on ircII-EPIC3.003 (after sh configure), I got this:
Kernel stack (00C29AB6):
C29AB6:
panic: Illegal instruction
Stopped at     -Debugger +0x6:  nnlk  a6

could this be because of the FPU emulation not being stable?

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Leo Weppelman wrote:

> I don't know what makes you believe this, but it's not true. You can use the
> bootpreference from nvram to select the OS you want to boot. Various apps
> are around to let you alter the bootpref (there's one with HDDRIVER). 
> >From the booter itself, you can start gem by holding the left-shift key 
> during boot and entering '.tos' at the prompt.

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