Re: Installing 11.0_BETA from cd-rom

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:48:44AM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> 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.

Yes, all the sets stuff has been rearranged and size has grown as we stopped
using .tar.xz to allow installations on small memory machines.

If you have a DVD drive and writables for them, you should use the

NetBSD-11.0_BETA-sparc64-dvd.iso

instead.

Sysinst is not specifically build for the concrete *.iso image, so it doesn't
have any idea what sets should be present on that medium. It should offer
better options to deal with failures in that case, like ask whether
to deselect a missing set or fetch it via network. Or (if a local medium)
just look and find out upfront...

Martin