From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 17:43:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12962 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles33.castles.com [208.214.165.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12956 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:43:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07159; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811020142.RAA07159@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yes! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 14:54:51 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:42:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It is installed! > > [ for the greppers and searchers ] Alpha Personal Workstation 433au OK > > It installed, and make world (actually buildworld, followed by > installworld) completed successfully. > > Minor Questions remain: > > * Sysinstall asks about fdisk partitions but the installation ignores the > information. Should it? or, should the Alpha simply not ask these > offensive DOSish questions? The SRM console doesn't use them; the install tools should ideally detect this, but we don't properly (yet) handle entire-disk allocation correctly. > * Assuming only one ``slice'' exists in which to install FreeBSD > partitions, how does one create a device with say, 20 filesystems? > No, this is not a DPT (yet again :-) question, although it could easily > be one. You can't do it inside sysinstall. You can probably build/run fdisk and divvy up a non-boot disk into slices, and then put labels on the slices. The SRM console won't boot from a disk with a "normal" MBR on it (I don't think you could come up with a merged block 0 format but I could be wrong). > * Who is responsible for the fix which will make the boot disk bootable? > If I am, then where is the best place to stick this code (thanks Doug!)? We need to work out what's going wrong first; newfs'ing the disk seems to render it unbootable. 8( > * Upon reboot, I saw the repeated message ``,kernel.old not found'', or > some such. Is this an artifact of installworld, or what? It was a bug in /boot/loader; Doug fixed it. > * It seems like this machine here has sound interfaces. Does anyone know > how to make them work? They're probably WSS-compatible. Port the new ISA sound system to the new ISA bus interface. I understand that DMA on the ISA Alpha's is interesting (hence no floppy support). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message