On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Rose, Brian wrote:
> 
> I am trying to make a boot floppy per the instructions in the NetBSD Guide
> (chapter 20). However, there are several problems.
> 
> 1. When trying to make the .fs files, the make fails saying that it cannot
> find several files ( /distrib/common/Makefile.distrib and
> /common/Makefile.tarfloppy ).
> 
> 2. When I grab the .fs files off of the CD, I still cannot proceed because I
> do not have a /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset folder.

If you already have the .fs files eg? boot1.fs? Try

dd if=boot1.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=18k

Cheers,

Patrick