Hey all,
I recently obtained a Sparcstation 2 running NetBSD 1.6, and would like to upgrade it to 3.0. After a long and troublesome time getting the floppy to work, I was finally able to boot the floppy installer disk1 from the OpenbootPROM. Unfortunately, disk 2 is not being so cooperative. The image off NetBSDs website for disk 2 is not tailed (no extension), and is supposidly ready to burn as an image to a floppy disk. Unfortunately it is not working. I have tried using rawrite and rawrite32, both programs having errors. The problem appears to be that the image compressed is 1.44 Mb, taking up more than a disk can hold in actual space.

I guess my question now becomes, how do I use this disk 2 image? I have no other way of getting the image to computer, or working with it. I do have FTP access, but the floppy drive doesn't seem to be configured for the kernel, and I don't have the source files on the drive, nor the space to download it and recompile the kernel with floppy support (all in an attempt to use the unix utils to burn the floppy image). Has anyone else encountered this problem? Has anyone figured out a way around? Why would they design a floppy image that is too big for a floppy?!?!

Any help would greatly be appreciated! This: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/sparc/ url is the folder where the Sparc files for NetBSD 3.0 are located. This: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetB...lation/floppy/ url contains the boot floppy images.

Thanks!
Brian