In article <19990622223542.A28448@y.ml.org>,
J. Heinrich <lists+netbsd-sparc@y.ml.org> wrote:
>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?

uncompress it first.

christos