Subject: Re: Problem building 'release' from today's CVS HEAD
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/11/2005 10:54:04
In message <86zmxa2rdb.fsf@athene.hamartun.priv.no>, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo writes:
>all ===> etc/i386/floppies/rescue-tiny
># create rescue-tiny/boot (from: /usr/local/arena/i386/usr/mdec/boot)
># create rescue-tiny/netbsd (from: /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/instkern
>el/obj.i386/netbsd-RESCUE_TINY.gz)
># create rescue-tiny/rescue-tiny1.fs (from: boot USTAR.volsize.4540 netbsd
>)
>PAX=/usr/local/tools/bin/nbpax sh /usr/src/distrib/common/buildfloppies.sh -i
> "/usr/local/tools/bin/nbinstallboot -mi386 @IMAGE@ /usr/local/arena/i386/usr
>/mdec/bootxx_ustarfs"-p -m 1 -s .fs rescue-tiny 2400 boot USTAR.volsize.4540
>netbsd
>Running instboot: /usr/local/tools/bin/nbinstallboot -mi386 floppy.18877.tar /
>usr/local/arena/i386/usr/mdec/bootxx_ustarfs
>buildfloppies.sh: Image is 8192 bytes (8 KB) too big to fit on 1 disk
>
I'm seeing the same thing. My email archives show this as a bypass:
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Sch=F6ler?= <wanker4freedom@web.de>
Subject: Re: build.sh distribution fails in bootfloppy-tiny...
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:55:47 +0100
yes, a quick'n'dirty workaround that works for me like a charm:
add 'FLOPPYMAX= 2' to every *-tiny Makefile
(this is noted in the mail archives at least half a dozend times ;)
but I haven't tried it yet this time.
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb