On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > >I am having problems with the second boot floppy on a sparc system.
> > >The first one boots fine, and the floppy is known good.  It says
> > >tar and gzip can't find the correct header, and then it ejects the
> > >floppy.  Is there something off with the sparc boot floppy No. 2,
> > >or another boot image I should try?
> >
> > Which version?  I just used the pair for 1.5 on a Sparc IPC yesterday
> > with no problems.
>
> Mine is an SS1.
>
> The straight 1.5 floppies from ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-1.5/sparc/....
>
> The original error was:
>
>   tar: Invalid header, starting valid header search
>   gzip: failed gzclose: Undefinded error: 0
[snip]

I had similar problems with my Axil installation. I eventually
went to 1.4.3.

-cr