On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a > mid-90s PReP architecture machine)? > > The NetBSD boot floppy images are confusing to me. The files are too > large to fit on a 1.44M floppy. I didn't see instructions on how to make > boot floppies out of the .fs files one can download in the install > instructions. I went ahead and tried to dd the part that fits onto a > 1.44M floppy and try to boot that and of course that failed. I have > e-mailed the NetBSD prep mailing list and no response from that. > I'd strongly suggest setting up a netboot server. You'll need dhcp/bootp and tftp, but it's way better than trying to deal with floppy disks and floppy booting. I've used it succesfully for NetBSD and Linux on a '140. I never tried Solaris, because I have no interest in Solaris, but it should work the same there. Pat
