>If anyone else has interest in booting netbsd off of
>an msdos floppy (or in a netbsd based router), I'd be
>willing to clean up the code a bit and share.

I'd be interested, but I'm skeptical about how much of a "router" fits
on a floppy -- even with compressed kernel and crunched boot
utiltilities.  The NetBSD-1.2/i386 install floppies have about 50k
free, and gated is not small.  How do you address the size
constraints?  With 2.88Mbyte floppies, or something else?

Also, i memory serves, one or other of CHRP/PReP specifies that PROMs
must be able to boot from a FAT filesystem, so the ppc port people
might also be interested.