>Number:         29928
>Category:       port-amd64
>Synopsis:       NetBSD-amd64 build broken because of bootfloppy overflow
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-amd64-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 09 11:19:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Matthias Scheler
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.3 2005-04-09 sources
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD lyssa.zhadum.de 3.99.3 NetBSD 3.99.3 (LYSSA) #0: Wed Apr 6 10:37:34 BST 2005 tron@lyssa.zhadum.de:/src/sys/compile/LYSSA i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Building a release for NetBSD-amd64 fails because the bootfloppy got
too large again:

--- all-bootfloppy ---
Running instboot: /src/tools/bin/nbinstallboot -mamd64 floppy.9346.tar /export/home/tron/obj/destdir.amd64/usr/mdec/bootxx_ustarfs
buildfloppies.sh: Image is 6144 bytes (6 KB) too big to fit on 2 disks
*** [boot1.fs] Error code 1
1 error

nbmake: stopped in /src/NetBSD-current/src/distrib/amd64/floppies/bootfloppy
*** [all-bootfloppy] Error code 2
--- all-bootfloppy-com ---
--- boot ---
--- netbsd ---
--- boot ---
#    create  bootfloppy-com/boot (from: /export/home/tron/obj/destdir.amd64/usr/mdec/boot)
--- netbsd ---
#    create  bootfloppy-com/netbsd (from: /export/home/tron/obj/distrib/amd64/floppies/instkernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz)
--- boot-com1.fs ---
#    create  bootfloppy-com/boot-com1.fs (from: boot  netbsd)
PAX=/src/tools/bin/nbpax sh /src/NetBSD-current/src/distrib/common/buildfloppies.sh  -i "/src/tools/bin/nbinstallboot -o console=com0 -mamd64 @IMAGE@ /export/home/tron/obj/destdir.amd64/usr/mdec/bootxx_ustarfs"   -m 2 -s .fs  boot-com 2880 boot  netbsd
Running instboot: /src/tools/bin/nbinstallboot -o console=com0 -mamd64 floppy.1726.tar /export/home/tron/obj/destdir.amd64/usr/mdec/bootxx_ustarfs
buildfloppies.sh: Image is 6144 bytes (6 KB) too big to fit on 2 disks
*** [boot-com1.fs] Error code 1

This problem also affects the "netbsd-3" branch.

>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/src
./build.sh -m amd64 release

>Fix:
None provided.