Subject: Re: 2nd Floppy
To: David Brownlee" , "Jim Tittsler <jwt@OnJapan.net>
From: James Dzimba <jdzimba@nrz.co.zw>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/26/2001 12:32:04
yes that is correct

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <abs@netbsd.org>
To: "Jim Tittsler" <jwt@OnJapan.net>
Cc: "James Dzimba" <jdzimba@nrz.co.zw>; <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: 2nd Floppy


: Just to confirm - this is the 1.5.2 floppies from ftp.netbsd.org,
: generated with the rawrite.exe from the same server, booting on
: a sparc10? I can dual boot a PC and test on a sparc10 here to
: see if I can reproduce the problem...
: -- 
: David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
: 
: 
: On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jim Tittsler wrote:
: 
: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:08:54PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
: > > Can you run a 'tar tvzf /dev/fd0a' on the second floppy
: > > to verify it?
: >
: > I tried interrupting the install script at the point where it
: > asks for the second floppy, but 'eject' failed with:
: > # eject /dev/fd0a
: > fd0: timeout: state 10
: > fd0: timeout: state 13
: > fd0: timeout: state 13
: > fd0: timeout: state 13
: > fd0: timeout: state 13
: > fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
: > fd0: controller status: state 13
: >
: > FWIW I did a 'tar tvzf /dev/fd0' on a Linux machine and was able to
: > see all of the files I found in the disk2 image.
: >