Subject: Boot floppy
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: J. Heinrich <lists+netbsd-sparc@y.ml.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/22/1999 22:35:44
What is the correct procedure for creating a NetBSD bootable floppy
from Solaris?

I downloaded NetBSD-1.4/sparc/installation/bootfs/boot-14.fs.gz to
my SS1+ (currently running Solaris 2.51) and put it on a floppy
with (from memory):

  dd if=boot-14.fs.gz of=/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabelled bs=512

This resulted in an errors like "bad magic number" and "not
executable" when attempting to "boot fd(,,1)", presumably because
the diskette is unlabelled?

Next, I fdformat'ed the floppy, but then couldn't dd to
/vol/dev/rdsk0/unnamed.

What is The Right Way to do this?

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