Subject: netboot on floppy
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andrzej Szeszo <aszeszo@o2.pl>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/26/2002 06:57:48
Hi!

I have got a question: how to install netboot on the floppy?
I have tried this without any luck:

# pwd
/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/netboot/ne2000_isa
# ls -l netboot_ne2000_isa.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  38285 Dec 26 07:23 netboot_ne2000_isa.list
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32768 Dec 26 07:23 netboot_ne2000_isa.rom
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29564 Dec 26 07:23 netboot_ne2000_isa.sym
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rfd0a bs=512 count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
262144 bytes transferred in 9.604 secs (27295 bytes/sec)
# disklabel -r -w fd0a floppy 
# newfs fd0a
/dev/rfd0a:     2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
        1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (340 c/g, 5.98MB/g, 736 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32,
# ../../installboot/installboot netboot_ne2000_isa.sym /dev/rfd0a              
installboot: nlist: no fraglist
installboot: error reading bootblocks
# rm netboot_ne2000_isa.*
# TOOLDIR=/usr/tools make netboot_ne2000_isa.sym

...

# ls -l netboot_ne2000_isa.*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  38285 Dec 26 07:34 netboot_ne2000_isa.list
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29564 Dec 26 07:34 netboot_ne2000_isa.sym
# ../../installboot/installboot netboot_ne2000_isa.sym /dev/rfd0a
installboot: nlist: no fraglist
installboot: error reading bootblocks
# 

I haven't found any solution in the archives, so what am I doing wrong?

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Best regards,
 Andrzej