On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:09:29 +1000  Simon Burge wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:44:59 +0200 (MET DST)  Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried tcpdump to see what my pmax was doing, and now I'm confused.
> > > It doesn't send any packet at all after it has loaded the kernel.
> > > And the last packet it sends is always an TFTP error packet (if I have
> > > managed to parse the tftpdump output correctly) but my tftp deamon
> > > writes "read request for //nfsnetbsd.ecoff: success" to syslogd...
> > 
> > I have now read the TFTP rfc and I think I know what is happening.
> > 
> > After receiving 895 kbytes, my pmax sends the error code 3, which means
> > "Disk full or allocation exceeded." So it looks like I need to shrink
> > nfsnetbsd.ecoff by 100 kbytes... Is this possible? If so, does anyone
> > like to compile such a kernel for me? (for a Decstation 5000/20)
> 
> Can you have a look at
> http://melanoma.cs.rmit.edu.au/~simonb/PMAX-type-list.html and see
> if your PROM revision is listed there?  (The PROM version should be
> displayed at the end of the self tests).  If your PROM isn't listed
> there, can you send me the info and I'll add it to the list.
> 
> I thought the nfsnetbsd.ecoff kernel was small enough to boot on any
> machine - I'll see if I can make a smaller one for only the 5000/xx
> series...

Could you try the kernels in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/pmax/small-kernel?  These are
1.3.1 kernels.  There's a stripped and a non-stripped one there - please
try the non-stripped one first.  If either of these work, please let me
know.  Note these kernels will only work on a 5000/{20,25,33} (but I
haven't got one lying around to test this!).

Simon.