Re: install/42146: sparc install floppy overflow

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost wrote:

>     - switch to using ustarfs based boot floppies with RAMDISK kernel
>       (I don't know reason why sparc doesn't use it)
>  
>  
>  ustarfs is newer than sparc floppy install support.
>  
>  
>  i think this is the best idea.

It may require more confirmation, but there are may other bugs
around floppy boot ;-(

The simple workaround for overflow is building miniroot with -Os
because instfs uses miniroot objects. Is it acceptable for 5.1?

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Index: sparc/miniroot/Makefile.inc
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/sparc/miniroot/Makefile.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 Makefile.inc
--- sparc/miniroot/Makefile.inc 13 Jun 2004 05:27:18 -0000      1.12
+++ sparc/miniroot/Makefile.inc 15 Oct 2009 15:44:52 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #      $NetBSD: Makefile.inc,v 1.12 2004/06/13 05:27:18 sjg Exp $
 
 IMAGESIZE=     8192k
+DBG=           -Os
 MAKEFS_FLAGS=   -o density=4k
 IMAGEENDIAN=   be
 MAKEDEVTARGETS=        all
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% ls -l instfs.tgz 
-r--r--r--  1 tsutsui  wheel  1450904 Oct 15 00:32 instfs.tgz

(on netbsd-5 branch)

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BTW, we should also update install notes to pull MI sysinst description.

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Izumi Tsutsui