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Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> At 1530843 bytes, the 5.0.2 Sparc installer disk2
> is too big to fit on a diskette. I see these
> choices for installing on the Sparc 2.
>
> * Try to make and use the NetBSD-5.1RC3 Sparc
> installer diskettes.
There were so many bugs around sparc floppy support:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sparc/2009/12/20/msg000484.html
but I believe all of them have been fixed in -current
and 5.1_RC3 includes necessary fixes.
Both sparc floppy images in 5.1_RC3 fit 1440KB:
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-rw-r--r-- 1 tsutsui tsutsui 1474560 Jul 3 20:41 disk1 (gunzipped)
-rw-r--r-- 1 tsutsui tsutsui 1447573 Jul 3 20:41 disk2
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and I've confirmed sysinst starts on my SS1+.
(my SS1+ has some trouble around ttya so no serial console logs..)
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Izumi Tsutsui
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