On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:52:37PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> And I can assure you it doesn't work on my system.
>    The Make Floppy operation did not complete.
>    (-54)
>                                            OK
> 
> It gives me this message after I pick "Utilities:Make a Floppy" and select
> the boot.fs in the dialog box.  It doesn't even try to access the floppy
> drive.
> 
> So, what's different?
> 
> PowerMacintosh 8500 with 300 MHz G3
> MacOS 8.6
> Disk Copy 6.3.3
> NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA2 boot floppy downloaded in binary mode from ftp.netbsd.org
> Original drive, never given me any problems and works fine writing via suntar

Huh.

I did this on a PowerMacintosh G3/233 (or 66? not sure) desktop
running MacOS 8.something (I'll check tomorrow; it's not at my
house) with Disk Copy 6.3.3.

I don't think it'd matter, but I used this boot.fs:

http://eclipsed.net/netbsd/20010404/installation/boot.fs

> Of course, once we figure out why it's not working for me.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Hrm. Unless I can make mine break or you can make yours work, I'm
not too sure how to proceed...

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