> >It sucks, I admit it.  I just don't agree with the blanket statement
> >of "there is no way to install on troublesome machine X without a
> >sysctl hack for PCMCIA", when in reality an install is possibly, if
> >not terribly practical.
> 
> Have you installed NetBSD on such a machine, _including_ the kernel
> sources?  I don't think I own enough floppies to do it (I know, I could
> rotate them ... but that's even more painful).  We _do_ want
> people to run NetBSD, right?  If "install via floppy" is the answer,
> then we lose even more potential users (the only reason my friend
> is running NetBSD now was because I was able to frob things enough
> to get it going).

We always could install NetBSD via MS-DOS partition (without any floppy)
on such machine. Couldn't we ?
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soda