From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 03:10:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA26883 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA26811 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bobh@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk) Received: from (n-cantrell.demon.co.uk) [193.237.193.139] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yZYUb-0005XK-00; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:10:33 +0100 Message-ID: <$Lz81FAYFXW1EwKC@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:09:28 +0100 To: Doug White Cc: FreeBSD Questions From: robert w hall Subject: Re: freebsd 2.2.5 kernel on cyrix 686 M2-MMX cpu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Trial Version 3.04 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Any more news on this, or did the hackers decide it was too one-off (I hope not. Although I've got the 2.2.6 minimal system up, I'm left with an essentially-unused disk set for 2.2.5! the installation script for 2.2.6 looks to need some work to pick up eg the xf86 files from the 2.2.5 distribution... I could be cunning, but just at present I'm sticking with my trusty(?) Linux distribution, I'm afraid) Bob Hall In message , Doug White writes >On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, robert w hall wrote: > >> Final mutterings - I promise (fingers crossed) >> >> 1) have also now tried 2.1.7.1 kernel 'boot.flp' (couldn't find 2.2.2 on >> uk mirror) and that also boots up off floppy OK on both my machines. > >Ok. Must have been a transient bug on 2.2.5. > >> 2) One of the reasons I've run out of disk space is that files in /stand >> have bogusly large sizes - all 1.167360 Meg. - this is for 2.2.6, but >> 2.2.5 did something similar I recollect. Whats going on here??? Can I >> kill them or does one keep setup info? > >/stand is a ``crunched'' executable, for use in emergencies if the root >partition is largely munged. The crunched executable is a collection of >the programs and libraries and is hardlinked for each individual >executable so crunched. The sizes will completely throw you off (esp. if >you use du) but df will have the correct values. > >All that's in there that's useful is sysinstall, if you aren't going to be >using it for installing packages, etc. then you can dump it. You can >always rebuild it later. If root is damaged then you have bigger >problems. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- robert w hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message