> I was trying to create boot floppies for NetBSD 1.5.1. (boot1.fs & boot2.fs)
>
> First I have formated floppies with fdformat -f /dev/fd0a
>
> Then I used dd utility to write image on floppies(from another NetBSD 1.5.1
> workstation):
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0a of=./boot1.fs

swap if with of.

with this youi recorded blank floppy to file.

> result looked ok
>
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
>
> When I try to boot my computer with them(ancient 486) it's telling me it's
> not a boot disk.
> Am I doing anything wrong? Isn't it a right way to do boot floppies?