Re: SPARC build failing with boot.fs overflow

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:10:05 +1030
Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:20:08AM -0400, Michael wrote:
> > 
> > I don't even know if the floppy drive in my SS20 works, I never used it and 
> > I have no disks to try.
> > That said, there's always booting from CD or network which ( in my opinion 
> > at least ) is less hassle than dealing with floppies.
> > 
> 
> Highly likely it does not - the floppy drives in machines from that
> vintage were one of the few case openings and the fans tended to suck
> any dirt/crap through the opening despite the little flap.  The drives
> tended to fail regularly even when the machines were new.

Not to mention the general unreliability of the media. The probability that 
there is a read error on one of the last two disks approaches 1.0 for any n > 2

have fun
Michael