Re (2): remark from dd
From: T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.co.>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:33:55 +0000 (UTC)
> dd reads in 41 blocks, and finds /dev/fd0 run of of space having written
> 40 blocks.
Thanks everyone for the replies. Still I miss something.
I'm trying to make the NetBSD installer floppies for a
Sparc 2, sun4c according to instructions here.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/sparc/INSTALL.html#Installing%20NetBSD%20by%20using%20the%20bootable%20floppies
The relevant section is quoted below. These are the file sizes.
peter@dalton:~/Desktop$ ll d*
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1474560 Jun 30 08:17 disk1
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1530843 Jun 30 08:18 disk2
More specific questions.
1. Why is disk1 gzipped while disk2 is not?
2. How can disk2 of 1530843 bytes ever fit on a floppy of capacity
1.41 MiB (according to Wikipedia)?
3. Can the NetBSD commands be adapted to work in Debian? How?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
>From ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.2/sparc/INSTALL.html#Installing%20NetBSD%20by%20using%20the%20bootable%20floppies
"NetBSD and SunOS use the same commands. First, get two 1.44 MB floppy
disks and format them either using the fdformat(8) command or a PC.
# fdformat
Be sure that the `fdformat' command completes successfully before
proceeding; on NetBSD success is a string of all `V 's', and on SunOS
success is a string of `. 's'.
Next, transfer the two floppy images (installation/floppy/disk1.gz and
installation/floppy/disk2) to the disks you just formatted. You can
do this step from NetBSD, SunOS, or a Windows machine using
rawrite.exe (available in the NetBSD/i386 distribution). Insert the
first floppy and run the following commands:
# gunzip disk1.gz
# dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k
# eject floppy
Insert the second floppy and run the following commands:
# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k
# eject floppy
"
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