On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:23:02PM -0400, Gary Thorpe wrote:
  | Please CC me with any replies as I am not subscribed to port-sparc....
  | 
  | I am having trouble running the installtion routine using the floppy 
  | images. I wrote both images to floppies (after ungzipping the first). The 
  | floppy with the kernel boots fine and brings up the prompt to select where 
  | the tarfile holding the installtion program is. I select floppy (option 3) 
  | and it begins to load the tarfile.
  | 
  | Unfortunately, at this point I eventually get messages about /inst being 
  | full. This is on a DTKstation/Classic+ (or something like that) with 16MB 
  | of ram. Shouldn't the installation have enough memory for mfs file systems 
  | to hold the tarball's contents? What is going wrong? Also, even though the 
  | tarball is correctly written onto the floppy (a formatted, error-free 
  | floppy) tar and gzip sometimes complain about end of archive or output 
  | ended or some similar message (I am sorry I cannot be more specific but I 
  | don't have the system up to get the exact messages [it is currently limited 
  | to a serail console as its only outside connection]). The floppy is fine 
  | because I can extract the files with no errors on my laptop by using 'tar 
  | zxf /dev/rfd0a'.

The problem was reported (with a fix) in PR 17614 by Adam Lebsack, and
I've applied that fix to the floppy startup script, and I've pulled that
change up to the netbsd-1-6 branch.



  | I have looked in the tarfile and its the total size is ~3.5 MB 
  | uncompressed. Any suggestions? I only want to run the installation routines 
  | because I may need to do some repairs on the hard disk (the kernel on it 
  | seems to have been corrupted because it doesn't boot at all but just causes 
  | a loop like a soft reset). If there are "rescue" floppy images otherwise 
  | available I will try those.
  | 
  | Thanks in advance for any responses and please remember to CC me in your 
  | reply.

Luke.

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