>Is there anyway to do it without floppies.  Any utils to drop the
>stuff on the disk without a floppy.  I have an amiga with an IDE
>controller and netbsd running, could I use it to right the bootblocks
>and kernal and all?

If you can convince your Amiga to write an i386-compatible disklabel
on the IDE disk, then you can use that method.  Otherwise you need a
floppy.

>Am I in luck, or will I have to go find a couple floppies?

You only need one floppy drive, if I remember correctly.
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