From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 7 14:52:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D5437B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:52:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8941643E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:52:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA7MqNHX021087; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:52:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA7MqNrn021082; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:52:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:52:23 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppies for alpha/DP2 Message-ID: <20021107235223.A20948@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20021107100959.I4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> <20021107101316.U4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021107101316.U4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > FYI > > > > I've just barely managed to finally shuffle and squeeze things down to > > fit floppies- 7 blocks to spare for kern.flp. > > > > I'm going to test them later today to see if they're usable- that't the > > next step. > > > > > > > > Oh- and here are the diffs- somebody can tell me quickly if they think > this is wrong. > > It took me so damned long because I didn't realize I could do a chroot > shell and iteratively work on the constantly breaking release.9 step > from the release filesystem directly. That's probably something worth > noting in the man page. > > Salient points: > > + all networking/nfsclient had to be moved to moved to modules > + have to keep COMPAT_FREEBSD4 (according to many) > + isp/sym are the only supported SCSI HBAs; mlx is also supported > (reason: SRM won't boot off any others, so no point in trying to > include them) > + ispfw included on floppy 3 so that the number of "why didn't this > work?" emails can be cut down (yes, before 5.0 ships this will > all be documented) > + TurboLaser removed- *some* TurboLasers have a floppy. *All* have > CDROMs. It's also probably true that because we cannot test TurboLaser > all that much that this was the extra 40KB needed to fit onto the > floppy. Tlaser is probably fsck-ed on -current, judging from it being fsck-ed on -stable (4.7-RC) as well. Admittedly I have not tried recently. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message