Making boot floppy

1.4.1 release

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.1/macppc/installation/floppy/

Som older version including 19990220

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/floppy/
ftp://ftp.jp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/floppy/

Even older version

http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot.fs.gz

You may have three choice to making boot floppy. Either of these should work. Using Suntar on MacOS is, I believe, the easiest way.

1. on Macintosh use (SunTar(*) )
   some note at using suntar
   ftp://ftp.jp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/floppy/ README.rawdisk

   or my Japanese instruction

2. Macintosh(Disk Copy, on MacOS )
   
   1. getting Disk Copy 6.1.3 (Sorry, following is with Japanese instruction)
      http://ftp-info.apple.co.jp/reference/disk_copy613.html
   2. getting boot.fs.img (made from Release-1.4, by suntar + DiskCopy)
      ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4-boot.fs.img
      boot.fs.img.hqx (These are too old, not recommended)
      ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD/powerpc-jp/ boot.fs.img.hqx (no compression 1.9MBytes)
      ftp://ftp.ki.nu/pub/NetBSD/powerpc-jp/boot.fs.img.lzh.hqx (MacLHA(*) format 1.5MBytes)
      Get boot.fs.img on MacOS.
   3. Invoke Disk Copy select "Generate floppy" and you will get "Insert 2HD floppy media". Then you boot floppy will be written.
3. Linux
   dd if=boot.fs of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k

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