The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/32379; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: james@lovedthanlost.net
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-sparc/32379: sparc port floppy installation for NetBSD 3.0 - disk2 image corrupt
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:39:24 +0100

 On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:10:01AM +0000, james@lovedthanlost.net wrote:
 > I cannot write the disk image for disk2 of the sparc port floppy installation.  Fails with both dd and rawrite.exe on PC.  First disk1.gz is fine.
 
 I'm not sure where it fails for you, but I successfully wrote the "disk2"
 image to floppy using 
 
  # dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k
 
 I do not have any sparc machine with working floppy drive though, so I
 can't test the install from this floppy.
 
 You (or your helpfull browser/ftp client) did not, by chance, decompress
 the file before writing it to disk? The "disk2" is linked to
 
    ../bootfs/instfs.tgz
 
 and it needs to be written to disk in this compressed form. Decompressing
 it (with gunzip) would yield a .tar file too big for a floppy.
 
 
 Martin