Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:04:16 -0500 (EST) From: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902251101130.6781-100000@calis.blacksun.org> In-Reply-To: <199902251435.JAA28863@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
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> 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 ? sysinstall probably should allocate more space on / considering the size of alpha binaries. Alpha kernels (and all alpha software in general) are bigger because there are fewer instructions in the instruction set and so it takes more instructions to accomplish the same task ... thus a larger program. -Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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