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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Failed? sun3 install? Date: 14 Dec 1995 23:21:23 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4aqbhj$8mj@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4af5l5$dvm@mips.infocom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tapehost.uniserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4af5l5$dvm@mips.infocom.com>, josh@infocom.com says... > >I recently attempted to run NetBSD install for Sun3 on a 3/60. I started out >the simple way and made the boot tape via the supplied script. When I tried >to boot with this tape it started out like I thought it would, but then spits >"exec: short read". Maybe I should be asking people who know about tape >messages, but I thought I would start here to determine if it was software >related. I have tried 2 different tape drives and 3 tapes. Has anyone >experienced this and know what I might be doing wrong? This is NetBSD-1.1/ The MakeBootTape script is broken. The quickest way to fix it, is to gunzip all the files beforehand, and modify the script to read the image files directly rather from stdin (need to use if=...). Look at the dd man page Tom