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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:07:27 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Jim King <jim.king@mail.sstar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing 
Message-ID:  <26557.909594447@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:49:22 CST." <199810281349.HAA19410@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> 

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> Has anybody had any luck using boot.flp on a Zip drive?  Mine stopped and
> asked for the "floppy containing mfsroot.gz", then complained it couldn't
> find /mfsroot.gz, then hung.  (This is off the 10-27 snapshot on
> mirrors.rcn.com.)

You're supposed to load the mfsroot image too before booting the
kernel.

> Is the procedure for installing using the NetBSD boot floppy documented
> anywhere?  I don't have any problem booting it and going through the file
> system setup, but I don't know what to do next.

Pretty simple - just make the filesystems with install and then xfer
over the dist bits you're interested in and run their install.sh scripts.

- Jordan

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