Subject: Re: how to format a floppydisk under SUSE LINUX for making a netbsd bootdisk
To: David Reichelt <freud-schiller@gmx.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/03/2002 22:23:32
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:22:42AM +0200, David Reichelt wrote:
> hi everybody,
> 
> 
> can u help me? my sun donīt wants to use the
> bootdisk i created. maybe i ue the wrong format option?

You need to format a 1.44MB floppy (I don't know how to do this on
linux). However most floppies comes preformatted to 1.44MB so you
don't need to format it. Just dd the boot images to the floppies:
gunzip disk1.gz
dd if=disk1 of=/dev/fd0
dd if=disk2 of=/dev/fd0

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
--