On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > 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.

	You can verify the disk2 image by running 'tar tvzf /dev/rfd0a'

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