Subject: Re: INSTALL kernel size
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/02/2000 00:41:16
> I found that the MINIROOTSIZE=3600 is not enough.  3960 is the minimum
> and I used 4200.  I've now found that 1440k is not big enough for
> boot.fs does that matter? or do we trim stuff from INSTALL until it
> fits?

I reduced MINIROOTSIZE to 4000, still does not fit.

We have:

Filesystem  512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/vnd0a        2815     2777       38    98%       2      28     6%   /mnt

38 blocks available and we need 121 to fit boot

A quick look at sparc/conf/INSTALL does not show much that can be
removed/reduced.  If I reduce MINIROOTSIZE to 3960 which was what we
currently need, we are still short of space by about 40 blocks.

We need to either get the ramdisk to again fit in less than 3800 << 9 bytes
or forget using floppies.

Also, does anyone else think it is a bug that binstall will exit 0
even though your /boot is screwed?

--sjg