The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/32379; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-sparc/32379: sparc port floppy installation for NetBSD 3.0
 - disk2 image corrupt
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:55:17 +1100

 Martin Husemann wrote:
 > and it needs to be written to disk in this compressed form. Decompressing
 > it (with gunzip) would yield a .tar file too big for a floppy.
 >
 >   
 I get the following error:
 
 $ dd if=instfs.tgz of=/dev/floppy bs=18k
 dd: writing `/dev/floppy': No space left on device
 81+0 records in
 80+0 records out
 
 My instfs.tgz is:
 
 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1512893 2005-12-27 16:39 instfs.tgz
 
 I downloaded it via FTP in binary mode.  I would have thought that file 
 size was too big for a 1.44 floppy - even in tgz format?  The 81 records 
 in suggests that.
 
 Regards
 
 James Turnbull
 
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