Installing 11.0_BETA from cd-rom

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi,

so I had for a long file a Sun Netra T1 installed at a remote
installation, and then it died. I've now finally diagnosed it,
and the boot disk was dead-dead, as in "did not show up in
'probe-scsi' output from the boot rom"-dead.  So time to fish out
a spare disk drive, and an occasion to test the installation of
11.0_BETA, so that's what I did.

The first thing I noticed was that the size of the ISO boot
image has ballooned considerably since 10.1, ref.:

-r--r--r--  2 611  611  481689600 Dec 17  2024 NetBSD-10.1-sparc64.iso
-r--r--r--  1 611  611  719257600 Oct 29 08:39 NetBSD-11.0_BETA-sparc64.iso

(I did not dig down and see what exactly has increased in size)

To such an extent that I worried whether my CD-ROM blanks would
take it.  After asking around a bit, it turns out "yes", an "80
minute" CD-ROM blank will take 700MB:

$ dc
719257600 1024/ 1024/p
685

OK, so onwards to using sysinst to install the OS.

I used "sets from the install media", and that uncovers that
there's apparently a discrepancy between what sysinst has been
taught the set list being, and what's actually present on the
install image.  In particular the following sets seems to be
"missing" from the install media:

base32
tests
manhtml

Perhaps that was done to ensure that the install image itself
could in fact be burned on a 700MB CD-ROM blank.

So I skipped those sets, and at some point sysinst said something
to the effect of "some sets could not be found, abandoning
installation". Despite this, sysinst allowed me to go through the
"configuring" menu, so it evidently wasn't a full abort of the
installation.  That might appear somewhat confusing.

Anyway, the installation completed, dmesg at

  https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8682

Regards,

- Håvard