Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[Dan Oglesby <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
> To: "Dan Oglesby" <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>, "David Brownlee" 
> <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Cc: rjs%fdy2.demon.co.uk@localhost, macallan%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> martin%duskware.de@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost, 
> port-sparc%netbsd.org@localhost
> Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 9:29:47 AM
> Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> 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:
> |
> | Cannot load netbsd: error=103
> |
> | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> |
> | The floppy images from 201009030000Z error with:
> |
> | Cannot load netbsd: error=27
> |
> | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> |
> | 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

If it helps, the SS2 that I am using has 64MB of RAM.

--Dan