making the NetBSD Sparc installer diskettes in a Debian system.

[peasthope%shaw.ca@localhost]

NetBSD users,

Working in Debian and following these instructions as 
closely as I was able to, I attempted to make the two 
NetBSD Sparc installer diskettes.  
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/sparc/INSTALL.html#Installing%20NetBSD%20by%20using%20the%20bootable%20floppies

After gunzipping disk1 these are the file sizes.

peter@dalton:~$ ll d*
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1474560 Jun 30 08:17 disk1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1530843 Jun 30 08:18 disk2

disk1 appeared be written without a problem.

root@dalton:/home/peter# dd if=disk1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 40.0901 s, 36.8 kB/s

disk2 had a problem.

root@dalton:/home/peter# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=36k
dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
41+0 records in
40+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 40.9183 s, 36.0 kB/s

* How can disk2 of 1530843 bytes ever fit on a floppy of 
  capacity 1.41 MiB?  Capacity according to Wikipedia.

* I do not have a working NetBSD or Sun system.  Can the 
  NetBSD commands be adapted to work in Debian?  How?

* For sake of interest, why is disk1 gzipped while disk2 
is not?

Thanks,          ... Peter E.


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