Hi,

it appears that whatever was last put on the NetBSD boot floppy
image made it overflow the permitted size of a 1.2M floppy:

vader# pwd
/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy
vader# ls -l obj/*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1228800 Oct 22 00:03 obj/boot13_ALPHA.fs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1243629 Oct 22 00:02 obj/netbsd.ram.gz*
vader# cd obj
vader# gunzip netbsd.ram.gz
vader# gzip -v -9 netbsd.ram
netbsd.ram:              57.5% -- replaced with netbsd.ram.gz
vader# ls -l
total 2432
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1228800 Oct 22 00:03 boot13_ALPHA.fs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1241973 Oct 22 00:02 netbsd.ram.gz*
vader#

Didn't help much, as you can see.

Is the next step to abandon the 1.2M floppies and only generate
floppies for 1.44M?  Or, does anything on the floppy need pty
devices? All 64 of them?  I tried with 8 ptys, didn't help much.

Oh, yes, this is with sources SUPed today.  I see the ramdisk is
only 89% full; perhaps the ramdisk size inside the kernel should
be reduced?  (Not sure that helps either, as the zeros there
should be compressed well by gzip.)

- H=E5vard