From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 9 10:34:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E185E37B424; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f39HXNG22158; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010409102856.A80923@sunbay.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message