Subject: Re: 1.6* floppy Install disk2 is bad? (or am I just an idiot?)
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Troutman <mor@linex.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/03/2003 00:53:54
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:51:55 -0700
Beaker (Jeff W) <beaker@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> 
> > No matter how many perfectly good floppies I've tried, I have never
> > been able to get any of the disk2 images from this floppy install
> > set to work.
> 
> I've had similar problems trying to make the install floppies on a
> *NIX machine. Try making them on a windows machine with the rawrite
> utility. I recently did this with the sparc-1.6.1 port and it worked
> fine.

Have you done it on a SPARCStation 10?  I had already tried that, but just for
good measure tried again with two different versions of rawrite.exe, one
from the NetBSD/i386 set and one from a Linux distribution.  No change.