On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, 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?

I have tried:
ftp ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/sparc/installation/floppy/
ftp river.styx.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/sparc/installation/floppy/

>
> >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?

Heh.. of course..

Not that it matters but I have tried to create the disks on a sun box and
an fbsd box.

still no luck.

> (Whilst disk2 actually contains gzipped info, it shouldn't be gunzipped).
>
> Luke.
>