tftpboot.img size (was: Re: Not having much luck installing debian in my SS1+)

[Mauricio <supremedalek@hotpop.com>]

At 14:28 -0400 9/30/03, Mauricio wrote:
> 	Ok, I am trying to put linux in my SS1+.  So, I downloaded 
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img 
> to my netbsd box, which I am using as rarpd/tftpd server.  I 
> configured the SS1+ to boot from le().  This is what happens:
>
> Testing
> Testing audio chip; listen for a beep
> Synchronous Error Reg Test
> Synchronous Virtual Address Reg Test
> Asynchronous Error Reg Test
> Asynchronous Virtual Address Reg Test
> System Enable Reg Test
> Memory Test
> Cache Tag Memory Test
> Cache Data Memory Test
> Probing Memory Bank #: 1 2 3 4 5
> Booting from: le(0,0,0)vmunix
> 307c00
> Watchdog reset
> Illegal InstructionType  help  for more information
> ok
>
> FYI, I have no problems installing netbsd in this same machine. 
> Where am I screwing things up?

	Incidentally, 307c00 = 3177472 in decimal, which is somewhat 
larger than the size of the said file in both the debian ftp site:

-rw-rw-r--    1 1176     1176      3161568 May 18  2002 tftpboot.img

and in my HD:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3161568 May 18  2002 tftpboot-debian.img

Would that be related to my problem?  I ask because I was reading in 
the archive that someone had a similar situation 
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/1999/debian-sparc-199901/msg00105.html), 
though the difference is that the file did came truncated where in my 
case, the file is being reported as larger than what it was supposed 
to be. :P