Luke Mewburn wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:47:58PM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote:
>  | 
>  | 	Anyone experiencing the same? bad magic number in disklabel etc.
>  | disks were created with dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k.
>
>Where did you get the files from?
>
>>From a quick look at
>	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/sparc/installation/floppy/
>I see:
>	-r--r--r--  1 234  netbsd   872156 Sep  9 02:44 disk1.gz
>	-r--r--r--  1 234  netbsd  1345888 Sep  9 02:44 disk2
>
>I assume you're gunzipping disk1.gz before writing it to the first floppy?
>
>(Whilst disk2 actually contains gzipped info, it shouldn't be gunzipped).
>
>Luke.
>
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>
I had the same problem on my IPC, helped when I setenv verion2? false. 
This machine has dual version openboot, and under v1.7 it boots after 
saying thet bad magic number, whilst under version2 openboot, it says 
bad magic number and hangs.