Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> At 1530843 bytes, the 5.0.2 Sparc installer disk2 
> is too big to fit on a diskette.  I see these 
> choices for installing on the Sparc 2.
> 
> * Try to make and use the NetBSD-5.1RC3 Sparc 
>   installer diskettes.

There were so many bugs around sparc floppy support:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sparc/2009/12/20/msg000484.html
but I believe all of them have been fixed in -current
and 5.1_RC3 includes necessary fixes.

Both sparc floppy images in 5.1_RC3 fit 1440KB:
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-rw-r--r--  1 tsutsui  tsutsui  1474560 Jul  3 20:41 disk1 (gunzipped)
-rw-r--r--  1 tsutsui  tsutsui  1447573 Jul  3 20:41 disk2
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and I've confirmed sysinst starts on my SS1+.
(my SS1+ has some trouble around ttya so no serial console logs..)

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Izumi Tsutsui