> I tried to install NetBSD/i386 (snapshot/20000527) on a box
> without a floppy drive.  To do this, I created a El Torito
> bootable CDROM with boot-big.fs padded to 2880k as boot image.
> The CD starts to boot fine, but it asks for a second volume
> after loading half of the kernel, so it behaves like boot1.fs.
> Is this expected behaviour?

No, that's not expected behaviour.  I'm threading on thin ice
here, but it could be that your BIOS doesn't correctly handle the
2.8M image as a 2.88M floppy, and instead presents it as 1.44M.

Regards,

- H=E5vard