Subject: Re: 1.6 floppies failing.
To: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/15/2002 07:42:42
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 @ 12:47pm (-0400), Paul Halliday wrote:

PH>
PH> 	Anyone experiencing the same? bad magic number in disklabel etc.
PH> disks were created with dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k.

assuming disk1.gz is a symlink to ../bootfs/boot.fs.gz (same size)...
then yes, i'm having trouble...in my case, can't use boot.fs.gz to make
a working bootable CD-ROM (wasted 3 discs already).

Getting

"The file just loaded does not apear to be executable..."

-lava

PH>
PH> Thanks.
PH>
PH>
PH>

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