Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:13:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha Message-ID: <199902252113.QAA40486@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902251101130.6781-100000@calis.blacksun.org> References: <199902251435.JAA28863@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902251101130.6781-100000@calis.blacksun.org>
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>>>>> "Don" == Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> writes: >> kernels for the alpha. Why are the alpha kernels so much bigger ? Don> Alpha kernels (and all alpha software in general) are bigger Don> because there are fewer instructions in the instruction set and Don> so it takes more instructions to accomplish the same task Don> ... thus a larger program. Aah. I figured they would be bigger due to that, but I didn't think it would be 3x bigger. Couple of non-related Qs: 1. Is there a freebsd/alpha rc5 client available? I couldn't find one at distributed,net 2. Anyone know how to set up a "make world" so that /tmp is not used? My "make world" keeps crashing because it fills up the root partition during the build. I was trying to find a way to set the tmp space to /usr/tmp, but couldn't see anything in /usr/share/mk/* Don> -Don 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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