On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:38:41AM -0800, beaker wrote:
  | >C Could you try on recent sparc snapshot (either -current or 1.6_STABLE)
  | from
  | > ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily and tell us if the problem remains
  | > with that floppies?
  | >
  | Per the suggestion, I tried again with the sparc boot floppy images
  | found at
  | "ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6/
  | 200212090000/sparc/installation"
  | 
  | Still no luck - these too fail with the following error:
  | ---
  | ok boot floppy
  | 
  | Bad magic number in disk label
  | Can't open Sun disk label package
  | Can't open boot device
  | 
  | ok
  | ---
  | Is there a simple way to just make my own boot floppies?

If you have a sparc system, in /usr/src/ do a "make release" (or in 
/usr/src/distrib run "make").

It's possible that there is something in the sparc floppy cross-build
that doesn't like being cross-built on an i386...