From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 8:16:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E1337B401; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net [198.65.168.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FF743E77; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406443BF1BF; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:16:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA5GG4345344; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:16:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:16:47 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-X-Sender: To: John Baldwin Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021105091514.L69586-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 :). Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message