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From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Subject: Re: how to get netbsd floppies on 1.44"
Message-ID: <1994Dec9.095657.14827@uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
References: <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 09:56:57 GMT
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In article <3c43r2$m6v@charybda.sovam.com> edgar@sovam.com (Edgar Ter-Danieliantz) writes:
>
>Hallo everyone!
>
>I have machine with only 1.44" diskette drive, how I can convert 
>NetBSD 1.0 distribution disks to 1.44"? 
>I tryed disklabel -w -B /dev/rfd1a fd|local|ufs
>but I got message ' unknown disktype'.

The floppy images work fine when written to a 1.44" disc.
e.g.

	dd if=floppy_image of=/dev/rfd0a bs=16k

worked fine on my NetBSD/i386 1.0 system. It also works on 1.0a.

Alistair
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