Subject: Re: buildfloppies.sh: Image is 3387 bytes (3 KB) too big to fit on 2 disks
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-install
Date: 05/09/2006 02:04:49
In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605090350540.15476@m24s24.vlinux.de>,
	Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> writes:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> So close.  "dev" and "ls" seem to be broken, by the way.  "boot 
>> cd0a:i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz" actually spins the CDROM (as does 
>> cd0d:...), but says "No file found...".  Was that supposed to work?
> 
> No, and it was brought up before.
> Someone even posted a patch, but I didn't get it to work.
> Feel free to dig the archives and work on that, I'd appreciate it!
> 
> 
>> It occurs to me that anyone who wants to work on this might need to actually 
>> build a release, so again, what to toss out?  IMO, "bad144" stands out as the 
>> most useless thing on the list, and "bootfloppy" and "bootfloppy-com" just 
>> fit without it, but it's not big enough to buy us much time before this 
>> happens again.
> 
> See my reply to Garrett's mail.

It sounds like a good plan..., but it doesn't sound like it'll be
ready this week. What'll we do about the broken "make release", in
the meantime?


Frederick