What happens if you try to gunzip the image first?
	Also - you probably want to try the syboot-14.fs.gz image
	rather than boot-14.fs.gz

		David/absolute

	"You think you're God's gift to the opposite sex"
	"Maybe... if you believe in a malevolent God."

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, J. Heinrich wrote:

> What is the correct procedure for creating a NetBSD bootable floppy
> from Solaris?
> 
> I downloaded NetBSD-1.4/sparc/installation/bootfs/boot-14.fs.gz to
> my SS1+ (currently running Solaris 2.51) and put it on a floppy
> with (from memory):
> 
>   dd if=boot-14.fs.gz of=/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabelled bs=512
> 
> This resulted in an errors like "bad magic number" and "not
> executable" when attempting to "boot fd(,,1)", presumably because
> the diskette is unlabelled?
> 
> Next, I fdformat'ed the floppy, but then couldn't dd to
> /vol/dev/rdsk0/unnamed.
> 
> What is The Right Way to do this?
> 
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