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 09:50:29
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 @ 7:42am (-0400), Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

BAS> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 @ 12:47pm (-0400), Paul Halliday wrote:
BAS>
BAS> PH>
BAS> PH> 	Anyone experiencing the same? bad magic number in disklabel etc.
BAS> PH> disks were created with dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k.
BAS>
BAS> assuming disk1.gz is a symlink to ../bootfs/boot.fs.gz (same size)...
BAS> then yes, i'm having trouble...in my case, can't use boot.fs.gz to make

scratch that the 1.5.3 image didn't work either.  I may be doing something
wrong, or perhaps i should use miniroot.gz instead of boot.fs.gz

anyone?

-lava

BAS> a working bootable CD-ROM (wasted 3 discs already).
BAS>
BAS> Getting
BAS>
BAS> "The file just loaded does not apear to be executable..."
BAS>
BAS> -lava
BAS>
BAS> PH>