Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:28:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <20010409102856.A80923@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010407095456.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:54:56AM -0700 References: <20010407135436.A60681@sunbay.com> <XFMail.010407095456.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:54:56AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 07-Apr-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:48:55PM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >> obrien 2001/04/06 18:48:55 PDT
> >>
> >> Modified files:
> >> release Makefile
> >> Log:
> >> Blow away all the help files on the MFSROOT for the Alpha.
> >> Someone did something that really blew up the size of the crunchgen'ed
> >> sysinstall+friends.
> >>
> >> Revision Changes Path
> >> 1.605 +4 -1 src/release/Makefile
> >>
> > Don't the supposed floppy size on Alpha always was 2.88M?
>
> > uname -a
> FreeBSD baz.osd.bsdi.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #152: Thu Apr 5
> 11:33:18 PDT 2001 root@baz.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BAZ alpha
> > dmesg | grep ^fd
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> ^^^^
>
> I don't know about you, but even if I did have a 2.88 drive in my alpha, I
> would be hard pressed to find 2.88 disks to feed it. Is this why you bumped up
> the fixit_crunch.conf file recently on the alpha? If so, I'd ask that you back
> it back down to something that fits on a 1.44 floppy.
>
What I was talking about here is that I am not that "someone" :-)
But I then figured out (by looking at the actual diff David made), that
he was refering to the mfsroot.flp floppy, not the fixit one.
As for the fixit floppy, I originally thought too that the generated size
for it on Alpha should also be 1.44M. I then checked that before my change
(release/fixit_crunch.conf, revision 1.28) the size of the generated crunched
binary for was greater than 1.44M. I wondered. And then saw this in
release/Makefile:
.elif ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha"
BOOTSIZE= 1440
FIXITSIZE= 2880
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MFSSIZE= 2880
Per CVS, this is dated back to 1998, release/Makefile revision 1.405.
I then checked with
ftp.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/X.Y-RELEASE/floppies
too.
Cheers,
--
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