Darren Reed writes:
> Second, what would be required to get NetBSD to boot from a CD-ROM on a PC
> which supports booting from a CD-ROM ?

mkisofs supports El Torrito. Basically, El Torrito puts a floppy image
on the CD and simulates a floppy with it during boot. Yeah, its gross.

> Yesterday, I installed a PC for the first time without using a
> floppy by putting my NT Workstation 4.0 CD-ROM into the CD drive and
> had it boot from there.  If only NetBSD were so easy to install...

It woudln't require that much effort -- we already have boot floppies,
and mkisofs could just slurp those.

Perry