[Soekris] Flashing Net4801 128mb sandisk/notebook-drive

[T. Hedges]

Hello;
            I have worked with notebook drives and a 128Mb sandisk.  I 
have been unsuccessful in installing to either.  Is it required to first 
use PXE to do a network install to a device in order for the  soekris 
Net4801 board to recognize it?  I have tried to flash an image using the 
dimensions 980/8/32 to a 128Mb Sandisk. This is what the Soekris board 
reports. It fails reading boot.  The notebook drives never get any 
further than uncompressing the kernel.  I would appreciate any help in 
this matter.  Finally, I am yet to get OpenBSD-3.3 on any system using 
an award bios to successfully get bios geometry (Because it is writing 
to a Dazzle 2.0 USB writer) to not use a fictiticious geometry when 
using fdisk/disklabel/dd.  I would appreciate any help in this matter. 
the notebook drive is a MK1016GAP (8455Mb 16383/16/63 LBA 19,640,880 on 
label) (1024/255/63 19,640,880 sectors to Soekris board).  I would 
appreciate any help in this matter.
 
                                                                             
Cheers;
                                                                                 
i2