> In case anybody is wondering: I handed back my borrowed Multia. One of my
> colleagues has it now at home to run NT (shudder..) on it. So unfortunately
> I cannot try the new floppy images on a Multia.
> 
> I now have a Noname.

Are you discussing about floppy-144.gz of NetBSD-1.3_BETA
distribution? Is that really a floppy disk image?

% ls -l floppy-144.gz 
-rw-r--r--  1 takuya-k  is-student  1198500 Dec 12 08:30 floppy-144.gz
% gunzip floppy-144.gz
% ls -l floppy-144
-rw-r--r--  1 takuya-k  is-student  3741616 Dec 12 08:30 floppy-144
                                    ^^^^^^^
% file floppy-144 
floppy-144: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped
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