>> "boot fd:0" pauses, spins a twirler for a moment (perhaps four
>> twirler updates), and reports "FD: can't LOAD from this device".

> This seems to me the way of writing to the floppy is the problem.
> (1) use dd if you have another Unix machine with fd drive available,

That's what I did.  I wrote the floppies on a SPARCstation IPX
(NetBSD/sparc, of course) with "dd bs=1474560 if=... of=/dev/rfd0a".
All the floppy image files were 1474560 bytes, too, so if it was
transfer corruption, it was pretty damn subtle transfer corruption.

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