On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:51:38AM -0500, Andrew Steven Ball wrote:
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> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to boot NetBSD/i386 1.5 from a FAT partition?

Yes, with bootdos.com (or maybe it's dosboot.com, I don't remember).

> My primary diskette drive is a 5.25" DSHD 1.2Mb and I don't
> think I have any high density diskettes for it. What I would
> like to do is download something like boot-big.fs.gz and
> boot that without writing it to a diskette.

You need a kernel, I hope an install kernel is available from the ftp site.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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