Subject: Re: creating installation floppies
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John R. Winans <winans@aps.anl.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/08/1994 08:55:40
>What is the proper way to transfer the installation and kernel-copy
>images to floppy disk on a Sun with a mounted pcfs filesys? Can they
>just be cp'ed or do I really have to some smarmy dd as is suggested in
>the INSTALL doc?
On my sun, I simply did the following:
dd if=kcaha-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a
dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a
And they worked fine. There is no need to have a mounted pcfs.
I was also able to do the same thing on my NetBSD 0.9 box to make 1.0
bootables -- ofcourse the device name was different :-)
--John