Re: Installing with an ISA floppy card

Jesse Peterson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I beleive it will boot off the built-in floppy controller, however, 
after the installation, the hardware isn't supported.  The floppy is how 
I got it installed on my 43P.  Also, is an ISO image out of the 
question?  Hope that helps..

Mike Woods wrote:
> Right, i have a 43p running linux pcc... and i hate linux ppc id much rather
> have bsd on it but i just cant get my head around net booting so ti occured
> to me, while floppy support for the internal controller is a way off what
> about a generic isa floppy controller, i already have one installed in the
> machine on a multi io card (machine runs as a print server amoung other
> things), so the question is could i enable the floppy port and use that to
> start the installation ?
> 

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