oops.  well i replaced the floppy with a brand new one and all is well.
turns out that if i leave a floppy in the drive for more than a few 
minutes it destroys the floppy.  i have a 7200 rpm scsi disk mounted
flush on top of the floppy drive so the floppies get toasted ;)

nick

At 04:14 PM 4/14/99 -0400, nm wrote:
>ok, i have an axppci33 system and i am trying to boot from the
>boot floppy to install 1.3.3 on my system but i come up with this error:
>
>Loading netbsd.gz...
>3882184lseek text: Unknown error: code 88
>
>i feel pretty sure that i have a good floppy disk here.  but im going
>to go find some other floppies and re download the floppy image.
>
>thanks
>nick
>
>here is a little more of whats displayed on the console:
>
>>>>boot dva0
>(boot dva0.0.0.0.1)
>block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is a valid boot block
>reading 15 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.1
>bootstrap code read in
>base = 110000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00
>initializing HWRPB at 2000
>initializing page table at 102000
>initializing machine state
>setting affinity to the primary CPU
>jumping to bootstrap code
>
>NetBSD/Alpha Primary Boot
>Jumping to entry point...
>
>NetBSD/Alpha Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9
>(ross@zeta, Fri Dec 11 17:21:15 PST 1998)
>
>VMS PAL revision: 0x1000400010538
>OSF PAL rev: 0x100090002012d
>Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
>
>Boot flags:
>
>Loading netbsd...
>open netbsd: No such file or directory
>
>Loading netbsd.gz...
>3882184lseek text: Unknown error: code 88
>
>