On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Erich T. Enke wrote:
> 
> > I can and have been able to build and boot successfully the non-floppy
> > install kernel (netbsd.INSTALL.gz) from distrib.  However, every time I:
> > 
> > dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot1.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b
> > dd if=/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/fdset/boot2.fs of=/dev/fd0a bs=36b
> 
> I don't know if it'll help, but try 'bs=18k' as indicated by the install
> document ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/i386/INSTALL.html

Same difference -- 36 blocks * .5k per block = 18k
It's 80 records either way.

(I've tried it.  It doesn't work)

Erich