Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-10-12 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> If you mean what I mean, that guy was Polish, and that stuff still sits in > the tree: Yeah, that was it, sorry - I'm always getting Germany and Poland mixed up! No, not really, please don't hit! ;) That's cool - I should look at this. A perfect excuse to pick up forth again, I think. - Jor

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-10-12 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Cool! Committed to -current. Of course, this should really be rolled > into the loader so that the sequence is more like this: > > > Would you like to load any additional kernel modules (y/n)? y > Please insert modules floppy and press return: >

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-10-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jordan Hubbard writes: : Cool! Committed to -current. Of course, this should really be rolled : into the loader so that the sequence is more like this: I actually like matsushita-san's patches too. Gives us more default devices.. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-10-12 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Cool! Committed to -current. Of course, this should really be rolled into the loader so that the sequence is more like this: Would you like to load any additional kernel modules (y/n)? y Please insert modules floppy and press return: Please insert mfsroot floppy and press return: That way

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
< -rwxr-xr-x 1 wollman sources 590239 Sep 13 15:13 lots-of-modules.ko.gz* Here's another one, with all of the modules except for those which cannot possibly be used for installation (e.g., sound, discard interface, bktr, etc.): wollman@khavrinen(329)$ ls -l most-modules.ko.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > It's just easier to keep band-aiding it, as ugly a scenario as that > might be. If we added a third disk with modules (This is based on somewhat dated sources, but I think that the idea is right.) wollman@khavrinen(305)$ ls -l *.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 wollman sources 1232060 Sep 13 1

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Until you have to leave something essential out and then we are SOL. For > > alpha I could think of only supporting CD installs, and drop floppies > > altogether. This

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13-Sep-2001 David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:37:22PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I have a patch for sysinstall which allows you to load kld's from a floppy. > > Please post!! :-) http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/sysinstall-kld.diff I am thinking of storing which m

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:37:22PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I have a patch for sysinstall which allows you to load kld's from a floppy. Please post!! :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:59:04AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hehe, it's time to add bzip2 into loader ;) I had a patch, but it provides > only marginal improvement as due to memory constrains you can only use > 100k compression blocks, `bzip2 -1', but it still provides 3% better > compression

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Until you have to leave something essential out and then we are SOL. For > alpha I could think of only supporting CD installs, and drop floppies > altogether. This follows DECs/CPQs convention of only supporting OS installs Only after

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:00:57AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done > > about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer > > already due to the bigger binaries. > > Hey, be my guest, just so long as we c

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13-Sep-2001 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done > > about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer > > already due to the bigger binaries. > > Hey, be my guest, just so long as we can install from whatever

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Maxim Sobolev
> > I don't know what the KSE commit added (or if it was even anything > more than bad timing), but we've hit the limit on the kernel floppy > again (x86): Hehe, it's time to add bzip2 into loader ;) I had a patch, but it provides only marginal improvement as due to memory constrains you can onl

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done > about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer > already due to the bigger binaries. Hey, be my guest, just so long as we can install from whatever you come up with. :-) Seriously, the fact that it

Re: kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:43:32AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer already due to the bigger binaries. > I don't know what the KSE commit added (or if it wa

kern.flp blown out again

2001-09-13 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I don't know what the KSE commit added (or if it was even anything more than bad timing), but we've hit the limit on the kernel floppy again (x86): Setting up /boot directory for kern floppy /R/stage/image.kern/kernel: 53.9% -- replaced with /R/stage/image.kern/kern el.gz sh -e /usr/src/rele