p You will need to have a 1.44 MB floppy disk to boot off. You must put the boot floppy image onto this disk, which contains software to install .Nx system.
p If you are using a l system (such as .Tn NEWS-OS or other .Nx machines) to write the floppy images to disks, you should use the .Xr dd 1 command to copy the file system image(s) (.fs file(s)) directly to the raw floppy disk.
p If you have an i386 machine which runs .Tn Microsoft Windows and use it to write the floppy image(s) to floppy disk, you can use the c Rawrite32 Windows program. It can be downloaded from .Lk https://www.NetBSD.org/~martin/rawrite32 . c rawrite utility for the .Tn MS-DOS environment is also available in the
a i386/installation/misc/ directory of i386 install media.
p Though .Nx*M uses the floppy disk to boot for the initial installation, the .Nx*M kernel does not support the floppy device. Some other machines or systems are still required to write floppy images even after .Nx*M has been installed.
p If your machine doesn't have any SCSI disks, or the SCSI interface on your machine is not supported, it can still run .Nx*M diskless. No file transfer is needed, and all you have to do is to prepare files on the server. More information about diskless setups can be found at .Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/network/netboot/
p The .Tn NEWS PROM also supports tape boot and network boot, but .Nx*M does not support them currently.
p After the boot floppy is prepared, just type c "bo fh" on the PROM prompt to boot it.
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