Subject: Re: NetBSD/sparc 1.5.1-BETA is now available
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/18/2001 10:50:59
> According to User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob:
> >Got it, tried it, but it dies trying to untar the second boot floppy.
> >After an abort to shell, it won't even eject the floppy, but requires
> >the pin in the little hole eject.
> 
> I just tried this on a Sun4m (TurboSPARC) Axil clone machine and the
> floppies worked fine for me.  I have checked the MD5 hashes on the ftp
> server and they match the ones on my local machine which,as I said,
> just worked.
> 
> >This is on an SS10.  The floppy is good, the floppy drive is good.
> >
> 
> Was the download good?  The MD5 hashes for the images are:
> 
> MD5 (disk1.gz) = c8272314cc9b722db9283a1b4d77f64a
> MD5 (disk2) = 9a0ce6f5b9c516e3193f29e0bfa5021b

Dunno what to say.  The md5's check out identical, so the download
was good.

When I get home tonight I will try it on some other sparc boxes and
see what happens.

What was the dd incantation you used to write the image?  I just
used dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0c conv=sync, in OpenBSD (I don't have
a sparc up with NetBSD, yet).  I see in the install.txt it has a
bs=36k listed.  Would that cause the problem?  Why?  I just rewrote
it with a 36K bs and will try that in a bit.

Thanks

Bob