Hello Maurice,

  MK> To this day I still install from a hard drive no
    > matter what boot method, now usb flash disks.  I
    > haven't used floppies in ages...

I experimented recently with bootable JumpDrive and Zip disk but I think
the firmware was just too old on the machines that I was working with that
day.  I have booted more recent ones from USB CD-ROM.  Frustratingly even
though the boards come with FireWire ports, I couldn't boot from a FireWire
drive.

My most recent install (NetBSD 3.1) was done by putting the bare minimum of
install sets on an ffs-format Zip disk along with an install kernel.  Since
the target machine had NetBSD 2.1 on it, I just copied the install kernel
to /, booted into it, repartitioned the drive and installed using the zip
disk as source media. Later I removed all files from the zip disk, used it
to 'sneakernet' the remaining install sets over to the new machine and
unpacked them manually.

- Andy Ball

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