On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Curt Sampson wrote:

# 
# ...unfortunately we're still not
# at a working boot floppy again yet, because it being very difficult
# to fit 1920K of data on a 1440K disk, we now blow up in
# src/distrib/sparc/bootfs. :-)

This is compressed, too.  ouch.

# Now I can start trying to strip out stuff to make it small enough,
# but I'm doubting I can find a half megabyte of stuff to yank (unless
# I start yanking things like sysinst...that's probably not good),
# so it's looking like we've got to follow the i386 port to multiple
# boot floppies. Has anybody looked at this?

Didn't the earlier versions of NetBSD/SPARC have two boot floppies?
I built a floppy kernel with root defined on fd0a in the config, and
it seemed to just magically do the right thing -- one boot floopy
with kernel, one root filesystem.

...or are you talking about a kernel which loads into memory and needs
to suck in more than one floopy as a root fs?

#       «Quand on veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'on existe.»

"When one wants mutton, that's proof that one exists." ?!?

				--*greywolf;
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