On another netbsd machine, I first unpacked the image...

tar xzvf test_image.tgz

... then put a floppy in the drive and ...

dd if=test_image of=/dev/fd0a bs=32k

Throw this floppy in your SE/30 and it boots!

Louis





Bruce ONeel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I missed this the firrst time (probably since I didn't
> have a se/30 then).  How does one write the boot 
> floppy?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce
> 
> "Louis  Guillaume" <lguillaume@berklee.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>It's amazing to see that we can boot an SE/30 without the Mac OS! The 
>>floppy image posted by Nyef works well, booting the installer kernel.
>>
>>How would I go about creating a boot floppy image that loads a kernel 
>>which looks for root on nfs?
>>
>>I've got the kernel, it's just a matter of getting it into a reasonable 
>>floppy image.
>>
>>Another issue is - this is an experimental machine: our network admins 
>>won't edit the dhcp server to point netboot requests at the appropriate 
>>machine. How can I either prompt for the NFS server containing the root 
>>filesystem, or hard code it? This of course after we've received a valid 
>>address from dchp.
>>
>>This would be very useful since we can't yet boot directly from the hard 
>>drive.
>>
>>Any help would be fantastic,
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Louis