[1751] in NetBSD-Development
Re: I think the floppy images are corrupt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Fri Aug 28 11:49:11 1998
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: nathanw@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:56:55 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:48:55 EDT
> vnconfig -t floppy vnd0 /tmp/netbsd
> (I got a vnd0: no disk label warning)
That's normal. Ignore it.
> mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt2
> (I got mount_ffs: /dev/vnd0d on /mnt2: incorrect super block
However, you're trying to treat the kernel as a filesystem;
it's not surprising that this failed. There is a filesystem embedded
in the kernel, but you have to be sneaky to extract it for mounting
(You'd want the opposite of 'mdsetimage', but no such program
actually ships).
I've used this image successfully, so unless we have AFS
bit-rot, it should work. If you want another test, copy netbsd.gz to
a partition somewhere on a hard drive and boot from it with the bootloader.
- Nathan
