Subject: Re: Frustration in building install disks...
To: Erich T. Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
From: Erich T. Enke <Erich.T.Enke@wheaton.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/27/2000 17:22:13
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erich T. Enke wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:59:02PM -0500, 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
> > > 
> > > the computer reboots when finished loading the second disk.

AHH!  Got it.  Revision 1.21 to
/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset-common/Makefile.inc needs to be
uploaded to the 1.5 branch (it was only committed to current).  That
fixes my problem.

Concerning other matters:
18k vs. 38b: either works -- I did both
INSTALL variant (under 1.44M): works

Erich