Re: bootxx needs to fit within 0th track of MBR partition?

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:57:18 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:51:38AM -0400, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Please don't drop floppies altogether.  I *recently* put together a
> Pentium system specifically to dual-boot MSDOS and NetBSD for the
> express purpose of manipulating FM and MFM-encoded floppies for ancient
> systems.  I'm perfectly fine dropping the 1.2M floppies, I guess (said
> system's 5.25' drive is double-density).  Happy to install from 1.44M
> disks, don't want to install from optical.

OK - cool and fun usage!

Martin
P.S.: and that is a nice usage of dual-boot