Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:29:33 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases Message-ID: <20020808182933.GC33981@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200208081823.g78INpx65623@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20020808172715.GA29895@sunbay.com> <200208081823.g78INpx65623@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:23:51PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> ...
> > > If this idea is acceptable, we should probably tweak what should
> > > go on the second floppy and what is used the least and put that
> > > on the last one.
> > >=20
> > > To load drivers from the drivers floppy, go to "Configure" and then
> > > the last option there is "Load KLD".
> > >=20
> > Ah, so we already have this functionality ready! Nice...
>=20
> That was a surprise for me too... A welcome one I might add.
>=20
> ...
> > > @@ -654,15 +655,15 @@
> > > > ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/etc/services
> > > ln ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/etc/services ${RD}/mfsfd/etc/services
> > > ln ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/etc/netconfig ${RD}/mfsfd/etc/netconfig
> > > - gzip -9c ${RD}/trees/base/COPYRIGHT > ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/help/COPYRI=
GHT.hlp.gz
> > > + cat ${RD}/trees/base/COPYRIGHT > ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/help/COPYRIGHT.h=
lp
> >=20
> > Should be cp(1). But then again, why don't have things compressed? IM=
HO,
> > it's much quicker to load compressed file from floppy and uncompress it=
in
> > memory, than to load an uncompressed file from floppy.
>=20
> The reason is that the compression works better on all files together than
> each separately. It was more important when I was still trying to fit
> everything on 2 floppies.
>=20
> Uhm, it doesn't really load the files from floppy. The whole image is
> uncompressed and made into a ramdisk or do I have it wrong?
>=20
You're right, it somehow slipped from my mind.
> Anyway if you would rather have the separate files compressed, I'll leave
> it that way.
>=20
> > > +.else
> > > + sh -e ${.CURDIR}/scripts/bld-ko.sh ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/modules \
> > > + `awk -f ${.CURDIR}/scripts/driver-list.awk 2 \
> > > + ${.CURDIR}/${TARGET}/drivers.conf`
> > > +.endif
> > > + @kldxref ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/modules/
> >=20
> > kldxref(8) produces the MD output, but is not a cross-tool, so it won't
> > work for TARGET_ARCH=3Dalpha modules on i386. The hints it produces are
> > optimizations only, and not strictly necessary. Bin it from here.
>=20
> I'll check again. It might be from when I was struggling to make a
> single .ko work.
>=20
> > > + @echo "set module_path=3D\"/stand/modules;/dist\"" >> ${RD}/image.$=
{FSIMAGE}/boot/loader.rc
> >=20
> > OK (assuming the sysinstall(8) mounts a 3rd floppy on /dist).
>=20
> Yes, it does, look for DISTMOUNT in usr.sbin/sysinstall/modules.c
>=20
> > > xe if_xe 2 network "Xircom pccard ethernet"
> > > xl if_xl 2 network "3COM 3c90x / 3c90xB PCI ethernet card"
> > > +CD9660 cd9660 3 options "ISO 9660 Filesystem"
> > > +MSDOSFS msdosfs 3 options "MSDOS filsystem"
> > > +NFSCLIENT nfsclient 3 options "Network Filesystem Client"
> > > SYSVSHM sysvshm 2 options "SYSV-style shared memory"
> > > SYSVMSG sysvmsg 2 options "SYSV-style message queues"
> > > SYSVSEM sysvsem 2 options "SYSV-style semaphores"
> > >=20
> > Hrm, I can probably agree on moving nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko to the =
3rd
> > floppy, but certainly not the cd9660 support.
>=20
> Well the placement is open for debate. I just needed to have a starting
> point and thought that most cd installs will probably be on machines
> that can boot from the cd and then it use cdboot and not this?
>=20
Um, how does cdboot help the kernel to see the cd9660 filesystem?
> > > Index: release/scripts/driver-copy2.awk
> > >=20
> > I haven't looked at this in details.
> >=20
> > > +++ release/scripts/bld-ko.sh Thu Aug 8 14:25:14 2002
> > > +++ release/scripts/driver-list.awk Thu Aug 8 14:22:31 2002
> >=20
> > Haven't looked at these either.
>=20
> I'm going to leave them out at the moment because I can't get a
> single .ko with internal dependancies to work. And even if we
> can get it to work, we will still need the third floppy... there
> is just too many drivers.
>=20
OK.
Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG,
ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine
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