From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 25 6:36:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com (unknown [206.29.49.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3BF14CFD for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 06:36:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01781; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:35:57 -0500 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.63) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001773; Thu, 25 Feb 99 09:35:33 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock [206.29.49.98]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25112; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:35:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vshah@localhost) by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA28863; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:35:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:35:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902251435.JAA28863@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Doug Rabson Cc: Don , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Rabson writes: Doug> I think that sysinstall must be using the wrong pathname on the snap Doug> server. I'll have a look at the code but you should be able to work Doug> around it my specifying an explicit pathname to an alpha snapshot. It is, I just got bit by this too. Sysinstall installs the i386 dists by default. It wasn't until I spent about an hour downloading that I attempted to use the holographic shell ,and discovered that none of the new binaries worked. :-) So, I reinstalled with a user-specified URL to ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha. One other problem with sysinstall seems to be that it defaults to 32M for the / partition. This works for i386, but it gets easily filled up on the alpha. The only reason I can think of for this is the >3M kernels for the alpha. Why are the alpha kernels so much bigger ? infection# uname -a FreeBSD infection 4.0-19990224-SNAP FreeBSD 4.0-19990224-SNAP #0: Wed Feb 24 16:51:45 GMT 1999 root@sloth.noc.erols.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC alpha infection# ls -la /kernel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3748642 Feb 24 11:51 /kernel I had to remove kernel.GENERIC to make space on / Doug> Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Viren -- Viren R. Shah viren @ rstcorp . com http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah/ ``NT, Networking, Security. Pick any two (you can't have all three).'' -- _The Twelve Networking Truths_, RFC 1925, paraphrased To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message