Subject: Trouble with installation floppy disk
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Gary Thorpe <gat7634@hotmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/18/2002 13:23:02
Please CC me with any replies as I am not subscribed to port-sparc....
I am having trouble running the installtion routine using the floppy images.
I wrote both images to floppies (after ungzipping the first). The floppy
with the kernel boots fine and brings up the prompt to select where the
tarfile holding the installtion program is. I select floppy (option 3) and
it begins to load the tarfile.
Unfortunately, at this point I eventually get messages about /inst being
full. This is on a DTKstation/Classic+ (or something like that) with 16MB of
ram. Shouldn't the installation have enough memory for mfs file systems to
hold the tarball's contents? What is going wrong? Also, even though the
tarball is correctly written onto the floppy (a formatted, error-free
floppy) tar and gzip sometimes complain about end of archive or output ended
or some similar message (I am sorry I cannot be more specific but I don't
have the system up to get the exact messages [it is currently limited to a
serail console as its only outside connection]). The floppy is fine because
I can extract the files with no errors on my laptop by using 'tar zxf
/dev/rfd0a'.
I have looked in the tarfile and its the total size is ~3.5 MB uncompressed.
Any suggestions? I only want to run the installation routines because I may
need to do some repairs on the hard disk (the kernel on it seems to have
been corrupted because it doesn't boot at all but just causes a loop like a
soft reset). If there are "rescue" floppy images otherwise available I will
try those.
Thanks in advance for any responses and please remember to CC me in your
reply.
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