port-sparc: Re: [Q] how to "fdformat" the NetBSD way

Subject: Re: [Q] how to "fdformat" the NetBSD way
To: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/12/2000 08:36:35

	IIRC, I used:

	# fdformat
	# dd if=boot-142.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k

                David/absolute
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:

> This really should go to "help," but I didn't want to get mixed up with
> the "i386" port.  Apologies to the developers.
> 
> Up to now I've been making install floppies on IPCs running SunOS4.1.3.
> 	# fdformat
> 	# dd if=boot-142.fs of=/dev/rfd0c bs=512 conv=sync
> 
> Now I want to install NetBSD on the last machine, which means I won't
> know how to make install floppies anymore.  How do you do the above
> (which I'm not even sure is right) on NetBSD?  Thanks much.
> 
> henry nelson
>