netbsd-help: Re: /sparc 1.5: can't get "instfs.tgz" onto a floppy

Subject: Re: /sparc 1.5: can't get "instfs.tgz" onto a floppy
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Henry Nelson <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/06/2001 15:06:50

> > stops with the error "dd: /dev/rfd0a: Invalid argument." At bs=36k
> > recommended in INSTALL.html, only 1363968 bytes are transferred. All
In case others are having trouble, the following worked, albeit being
very slow:
# dd if=instfs.tgz of=/dev/rfd0a bs=512 conv=sync
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