On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:27:09PM -0500, Ranjiniganesh@aol.com wrote:
>  

> From: Ranjiniganesh@aol.com
> Full-name: Ranjiniganesh
> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:45:23 EST
> Subject: 1.6 disk2 problem
> To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10502
> 
>  I have a SparcStation 10 with a floppy drive. Currently it has a very old 
> version
> of SunOS which is broken. I am trying to scratch it and build netbsd 1.6 on 
> it.
> I tried building 2 floppies from the 1.6 release - but they did not work. 
> I downloaded the floppy images from the netbsd ftp side and used rawrite on 
> my
> pc to write them to the floppy.
> 
> The first disk kept coming back with wrong magic number / sun label etc. 
> Then i read through the archives and  found a build at 
> ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6/200303010000/sparc/install
> 
> ation/floppy
> 
> The first floppy now boots fine - but the second one does not work. Can 
> anyone
> tell me where to get a working image of the second image?

Well, I tried the last 1.6.1_RC2 boot floppy, and I couldn't get my
IPC to load the first floppy. It may be hardware problem on my side though
(last time I booted from floppy on this box, the kernel complained about
soft errors).

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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