Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:09:28 +0100 From: robert w hall <bobh@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd 2.2.5 kernel on cyrix 686 M2-MMX cpu Message-ID: <$Lz81FAYFXW1EwKC@n-cantrell.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415192017.5749E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug Any more news on this, or did the hackers decide it was too one-off (I hope not. Although I've got the 2.2.6 minimal system up, I'm left with an essentially-unused disk set for 2.2.5! the installation script for 2.2.6 looks to need some work to pick up eg the xf86 files from the 2.2.5 distribution... I could be cunning, but just at present I'm sticking with my trusty(?) Linux distribution, I'm afraid) Bob Hall In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415192017.5749E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>, Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes >On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, robert w hall wrote: > >> Final mutterings - I promise (fingers crossed) >> >> 1) have also now tried 2.1.7.1 kernel 'boot.flp' (couldn't find 2.2.2 on >> uk mirror) and that also boots up off floppy OK on both my machines. > >Ok. Must have been a transient bug on 2.2.5. > >> 2) One of the reasons I've run out of disk space is that files in /stand >> have bogusly large sizes - all 1.167360 Meg. - this is for 2.2.6, but >> 2.2.5 did something similar I recollect. Whats going on here??? Can I >> kill them or does one keep setup info? > >/stand is a ``crunched'' executable, for use in emergencies if the root >partition is largely munged. The crunched executable is a collection of >the programs and libraries and is hardlinked for each individual >executable so crunched. The sizes will completely throw you off (esp. if >you use du) but df will have the correct values. > >All that's in there that's useful is sysinstall, if you aren't going to be >using it for installing packages, etc. then you can dump it. You can >always rebuild it later. If root is damaged then you have bigger >problems. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- robert w hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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