Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive

[Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>]

Quoting Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:

> > ----- s n i p -----
> > Wrong disk!
> > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST.
> > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm. You need disk 1 of series
> > the driver series.
> > ----- s n i p -----
> > 
> > The machine is a SPARC station 1+ (a sun4c arch).
> 
> I'm fairly certain this is not a sparc issue, or atleast that it has
> nothing to do with anything I changed. For the latest set, I just used a
> newer kernel, and the latest boot-floppies source.

I see. Might the problem be in dbootstrap then? Or is the driver floppies
created wrongly?

A problem with the floppy splitting?

When "less'ing" the drivers-1.bin file, the first line(s) reads

----- s n i p -----
Floppy split 0.1^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@h^@^@^C<A8>drv14-sun4cdm^@^C<A4>^@^@^C<94>
^@^@^@h^@^@^Cd^@^@^C`^@^@^Ad^@^@^@^Cp^B<9F><B0>^@^A^C<FC>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
^@^@^@^@^@^@^<F0>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^Cp^@^B<F8><EF>
<FF><F3>`1564409^@p^B<8C><BC><EF><FF><F11474048^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@1^@^@^@<EF><FF>
----- s n i p -----

So somehow it seems like the it's a problem with 'utilities/floppy_split' (in
the boot-floppies source)...


Is there any woody disks availible somewhere?

This is my first and only SPARC installation, so I have no chanse of making this
stuff my self, so I would appreciate if someone could help me with a correct
set of disks. I'd do it myself, and post a patch if I could... :)
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