On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech <
cctech at 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