Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:56:05 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>, "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021105175605.A7042@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021105115302.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:53:02AM -0500 References: <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> <XFMail.20021105115302.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:53:02AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 05-Nov-2002 Fred Clift wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> > >> On 05-Nov-2002 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > >> > I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of > >> > problems. > >> > > >> > What is required at minimum is the following: > >> > >> This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is > >> that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the > >> loader. > > > > Being new to the alpha architecture, my biggest problem with all this is > > that I dont know enough to even have vague ideas of _why_ the i386 bare > > kernel is so much smaller than the alpha bare kernel. > > > > Can anyone explain this? I'm really just curious :). > > For one thing, 64-bit binaries are larger than 32-bit binaries. > Another difference on 5.0 is that Alpha supports SMP out of the > box where as i386 requires a custom kernel for SMP support. It is still slim, compared to genvmunix on Tru64 ;-) (> 10MB when I last looked) -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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