Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:35:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha Message-ID: <199902251435.JAA28863@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240901510.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902231621380.487-100000@calis.blacksun.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240901510.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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
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