Trouble booting install floppy on Sparcstation 10

From: Enoch Zembecowicz (enoch_at_zembecowicz.org)
Date: 11/15/03

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    I'm trying to boot a Sparcstation 10 from floppies to get NetBSD installed
    on it. When I type "boot floppy" at the open boot prompt I get the
    following error:

    Boot device: /obio/SUNW,fdtwo File and args:
    Track 0 reported when on track 2.

    Can't open boot device

    I've tried this with several disks, all made from a PC running Linux.
    Here is the command I used to create the floppy (after formatting of
    course)

    dd if=floppy1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync.

    What am I missing here?

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