Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:42:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yes! Message-ID: <199811020142.RAA07159@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 14:54:51 EST." <XFMail.981101145451.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> 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
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