Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <XFMail.010409103354.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010409102856.A80923@sunbay.com>
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On 09-Apr-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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.
I guess no one uses the fixit floppy on the alpha then. Either that or we need
to possibly build two version of it, one that is a 1440 and one that is a 2880.
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