install/42146: sparc install floppy overflow

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>Number:         42146
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       sparc install floppy overflow
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 02 13:15:00 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Izumi Tsutsui
>Release:        NetBSD 5.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD 5.0.1 release binary distribution
>Description:
sparc/installation/floppy/disk2 binary (which is a symlink to
sparc/installation/bootfs/instfs.tgz) doesn't fit 1440KB floppy.

>How-To-Repeat:

% ftp 
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.1/sparc/installation/floppy/disk2
 :
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'disk2' (1528772 bytes).
100% |***********************************|  1492 KiB  102.04 KiB/s    00:00 ETA
 :
# dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k
dd: /dev/rfd0a: end of device
41+0 records in
40+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 48.477 secs (30417 bytes/sec)

>Fix:
- prepare own list file of a crunchide binary for instfs and
  remove unnecesarry binaries to shrink it
  (instfs.tgz is created from a file list for miniroot;
   see src/distrib/sparc/instfs/Makefile)
or
- switch to using ustarfs based boot floppies with RAMDISK kernel
  (I don't know reason why sparc doesn't use it)

etc?
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Izumi Tsutsui