On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erich T. Enke wrote:

> I can and have been able to build and boot successfully the non-floppy
> install kernel (netbsd.INSTALL.gz) from distrib.  However, every time I:
> 
> dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot1.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b
> dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot2.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b

I don't know if it'll help, but try 'bs=18k' as indicated by the install
document ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/i386/INSTALL.html

[snip]

-Jon
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