Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:50:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902261148290.71217-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199902251435.JAA28863@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Viren R. Shah wrote: > >>>>> "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. I'll try to fix it. > > 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 ? I'll change the default size for / too. The alpha kernels are bigger because the alpha code is less compact I think. The 32bit instructions and 64bit pointers just spread things out a bit I'm afraid. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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