From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 20:54:29 2005 Return-Path: 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 9EB6916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B59243D1F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:54:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j07KsRYb022778; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j07KsRtr064510; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j07KsRoa064509; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "William H. Magill" Message-ID: <20050107205427.GB64477@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200501031101.j03B1wtR006075@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050106182644.GA57934@freebie.xs4all.nl> <05847D56-604E-11D9-8A59-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> <20050107160308.GA63225@freebie.xs4all.nl> <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 4.11-RC1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation and similar issues with 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:54:29 -0000 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:39:22PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote.. > On 07 Jan, 2005, at 11:03, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:47:00PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote.. > >>On 06 Jan, 2005, at 13:26, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>>>2) Does anybody have any descriptions of "rational" disk layouts for > >>>> 4 or 9 gig drives? [Both boot and "other"] > >>>> ... especially since I have a "blue" SW shelf of "VW" drives. > >>> .. > Is there an installation "log file" where values and etc input are > recorded? Hm, no, not that I know of. > into "unspecific terminology." Thinking back, I can't remember when the > last time > was that I wound up issuing a FORMAT Unit command for any reason! O, I can: 520byte/block disks taken out of a raidbox needed a lowlevel to be usable :) > >Well, yeah... There is probably more like this stuff missing. Lemme > >see > >if I can add that info. Note that there is a generic and a Alpha > >specific The fdisk thing is now in the docs. > nothing I > have been able to find which recommends partition sizes, especially for > various No, there is not that I have ever seen. > I think I used A- 100 meg B- 2 gig D- 400 meg E-4 gig F- rest. > (I did use the "meg" and "gig" terms in the initilaization) I typically use 256MB for root, RAMsize+1Mbyte for swap, the rest for /usr. But that is for testmachines, YMMV, greatly vary I might add. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org