Angus Lees wrote:

..snip...

> sounds like its trying to boot the floppy as a hard drive..
> 
> how did you tell it to boot from the floppy?
> 
> (i just had to do: "boot floppy" - it was really tricky)

Which is exactly what we tried a number of times with different
floppies. Hmm.

It seems the only way to do floppy boots and just keep downloading and
retrying - multiple times. Notes do say this.

> 
> > I'd also appreciate it if someone can tell me how I can get dd to stop
> > the speaker squarking - the first dd switch the speaker on. It is also
> > flashing lights on the front panel, but I can ignore those.
> 
> that sounds .. healthy.
> 
> this is a dd process on your i386 or from another sparc?

i386 - as you say, it sounds healthy not.


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