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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: karl@genesis.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Booting NetBSD from 1.44MB 3.5" disks Date: 14 May 1993 16:25:23 -0500 Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1t12o3$one@genesis.MCS.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.mcs.com Has anyone managed to make this work (booting 1.44MB 3.5" diskettes)? I don't HAVE a 5.25" disk drive in my machines, and the system I want to load this on doesn't have a place for it in any case! When I try to load the system the kernel panics with a trap immediately after it prompts you to change disks and hit RETURN. It <does> get to that point cleanly. The documentation says I should be able to load off this media. It appears that the disk access light never even comes on. Ideas? Thoughts? Anyone done this? Special instructions? My earlier posting brought <no> responses; is this really impossible? Must I scrap my hardware and do something else? Run something else? Why, why, why does this explode? -- Karl Denninger (karl@genesis.MCS.COM) | You can never please everyone except Modem Access: [+1 312 248-0900] | by bankrupting yourself. Voice & FAX: [+1 312 248-8649] | Internet in Chicago; a MCSNET first!