> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > For you convenience, a fresh sparc snapshot has been uploaded to
> > 
> > 	`ftp.netbsd.org/ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19990810'
> 
> On my Tadpole, I tried to boot from the miniroot file
> system without success:
> 
> ok boot -s
> ... [no swap turned on]
> # gzip -d < miniroot-14I.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync
> # halt
> ok boot disk:b netbsd -s
> Boot device: ...[this is ok]
> Instruction Access Exception
> 
> What's wrong with this?

I think your machine does not have enough memory.
So,gzip -d needs swap space.

Try "gzip -d miniroot-14I.fs.gz ; dd if=minoroot-24I.fs of=/dev/......"