Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 3,  9:24pm, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

| The floppy images from 201009010000Z error with:
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| Cannot load netbsd:  error=103
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| This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
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| The floppy images from 201009030000Z error with:
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| Cannot load netbsd:  error=27
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| This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
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| Using the same floppies, and the same machine that wrote the previous 
floppies, I can make a set of NetBSD-1.6.2 floppies and boot the SS2 up to 
installation, so the hardware and media appear to work.

Progress!

27 == EFBIG. The kernel has gotten too big or you don't have enough memory
to load it. Perhaps we can make a small kernel for it.

christos