Folks,

	I'm having the same problems with the floppy images I have 
downloaded (from Denmark, Netherlands, and main NetBSD ftp sites). 
Looking at the archives of the port-sparc mailing list (see 
<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2002/09/>), it looks like 
these issues were first mentioned last month, but I don't see any 
resolutions to any of these problems.

	The floppy images I have are:

% ls -la
total 5512
drwxr-xr-x  4 blk  staff      136 Oct 11 22:15 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 blk  staff      102 Oct 11 22:09 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 blk  staff  1474560 Sep  9 11:44 disk1
-rw-r--r--  1 blk  staff  1345888 Sep  9 11:44 disk2

% md5 disk*
MD5 (disk1) = 93eb9945f0deb7a1948168f9a70e1f9f
MD5 (disk2) = b8769ab998d8d00e5715e26462aeea92

	Of course, this is after gunzip'ing the disk1.gz image.


	I have tried copying the second disk using dd to a floppy on a 
FreeBSD-4.6.2 machine (my wife's old laptop, very recently 
installed), my PowerBook G3 "Pismo" running MacOS X 10.2.1 w/ a USB 
floppy drive, and my wife's new Sony Vaio laptop running Windows 2000 
and using Rawrite32.

	So far, only FreeBSD has been able to write the second floppy at 
all -- dd on MacOS X craps out with that image (regardless of block 
size, one more block read than written and the error "dd: 
/dev/rdisk1: Invalid argument"), as does rawrite (it just complains 
that it can't write to the floppy, and I've tried four different 
floppy disks).


	Myself, I have a Twinhead Twinstation 5G w/ 32MB of RAM, two SCSI 
disks (one 2G and one 4G), cgsix (unused), and a qfe SBus card.  I 
was hoping to install 1.6, in order to get native support for the qfe 
card, otherwise I have to try some version of -CURRENT.


	If you could send me a private copy of all responses, I would 
appreciate it.  I used to be subscribed to the list, but I think I 
have since been unsubscribed.


	Thanks!

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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