Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[Dan Oglesby <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
> To: "Dan Oglesby" <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>
> Cc: rjs%fdy2.demon.co.uk@localhost, macallan%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> martin%duskware.de@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost, 
> port-sparc%netbsd.org@localhost,
> "David Brownlee" <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 2:53:12 PM
> Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> On Sep 6, 11:15am, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> 
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
> | > To: "Dan Oglesby" <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>, "David 
> Brownlee"
> | > <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> | > Cc: rjs%fdy2.demon.co.uk@localhost, macallan%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> martin%duskware.de@localhost,
> | > tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost, port-sparc%netbsd.org@localhost
> | > Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 9:29:47 AM
> | > Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> | > On Sep 3, 9:24pm, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) 
> wrote:
> | > -- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
> | >
> | > | The floppy images from 201009010000Z error with:
> | > |
> | > | Cannot load netbsd: error=103
> | > |
> | > | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> | > |
> | > | The floppy images from 201009030000Z error with:
> | > |
> | > | Cannot load netbsd: error=27
> | > |
> | > | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> | > |
> | > | Using the same floppies, and the same machine that wrote the
> | > | previous floppies, I can make a set of NetBSD-1.6.2 floppies and
> | > | boot the SS2 up to installation, so the hardware and media
> | > | appear to
> | > | work.
> | >
> | > Progress!
> | >
> | > 27 == EFBIG. The kernel has gotten too big or you don't have
> | > enough
> | > memory
> | > to load it. Perhaps we can make a small kernel for it.
> | >
> | > christos
> |
> | If it helps, the SS2 that I am using has 64MB of RAM.
> 
> Can you add some debugging to print the size in
> sys/arch/sparc/stand/boot/boot.c?
> 
> christos

I'm just getting started with NetBSD, and I've never done system level stuff 
like this before.  I'll take some suggestions from anyone, if that will speed 
things up, though.

--Dan