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

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-sparc-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	james@lovedthanlost.net, tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: port-sparc/32379: sparc port floppy installation for NetBSD 3.0
	 - disk2 image corrupt
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:54:31 +0900

 In article <20051227134502.B5F5763B8B9@narn.netbsd.org>
 martin@duskware.de wrote:
 
 >  I don't think that will make a difference. But could you please check the
 >  size of the image and the file(1) output.
 
 Hmm, instfs.tgz is larger than 1440KB:
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 % ftp ftp.netbsd.org://pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/sparc/installation/bootfs/instfs.tgz
  :
 local: instfs.tgz remote: instfs.tgz
 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||64445|)
 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'instfs.tgz' (1512893 bytes).
 100% |*************************************|  1477 KB  187.94 KB/s    00:00 ETA
 226 Transfer complete.
 1512893 bytes received in 00:07 (187.92 KB/s)
 221-
     Data traffic for this session was 1512893 bytes in 1 file.
     Total traffic for this session was 1515992 bytes in 1 transfer.
 221 Thank you for using the FTP service on ftp.NetBSD.org.
 %
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 (on SS1+)
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 # dd if=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k | tar ztvf -
  :
 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root     wheel          0 Dec 19 13:09 ./var/tmp -> /tmp
 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      11997 Dec 19 13:09 ./install
 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel      11382 Dec 19 13:09 ./upgrade
 -r--r--r--  1 root     wheel      34607 Dec 19 13:09 ./install.sub
 gzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
 tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
 tar: ustar vol 1, 1610 files, 4292942 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 170 secs (25252 bytes/sec)
 tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
 # 
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 Izumi Tsutsui