No matter how many perfectly good floppies I've tried, I have never been
able to get any of the disk2 images from this floppy install set to
work. Is it not completely bogus, and always has been?  I only have SS10
machines with someone else's Solaris installed that I can not get into
to do a miniroot install on, but can break into an ok prompt to 'boot
floppy'...  Anyways, in following the floppy install instructions to the
letter I always get here:

<<FROM A NETBSD/I386 BOXEN>>
evangeline: {160} fdformat
Ready to format /dev/rfd0a with 80 cylinders, 2 tracks, 18 sectors of
512 bytes
(1440 KB) Yes/no [y]?
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
evangeline: {161} dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k conv=sync
36+1 records in
37+0 records out
1363968 bytes transferred in 44.844 secs (30415 bytes/sec)
evangeline: {162} tar tvzf /dev/rfd0a
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 Apr  8 20:20 2003 .
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./bin
-r-xr-xr-x root/wheel  2200124 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./bin/cat
<<SNIP LISTING FOR BREVITY>>
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel         0 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./var/spool/lock
lrwxr-xr-x root/wheel         0 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./var/tmp -> /tmp
-r-xr-xr-x root/wheel     11997 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./install
-r-xr-xr-x root/wheel     11382 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./upgrade
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     34611 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./install.sub
-r--r--r-- root/wheel      3349 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./.profile
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     10526 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./install.md

gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
-r-xr-xr-x root/wheel         0 Apr  8 20:20 2003 ./sysinst link to ./bin/cat
tar: child returned status 2
evangeline: {163} 

And this floppy will fail with 'fd0c: hard error when reading fsbn 0'
when the Sparc tries to read it after swapping out disk1 for this one.