Well, I've hit the first major issue with making a floppy boot disk. Take
color.gz and make the exact same thing on the Alpha and it's too big to
fit on a single floppy. The uncompressed size is over 5 megs, and the
gzip -9'ed image is 2 megs.
And I'm not sure what I can take out. Everything's been stripped as much
as it can be. I haven't added any additional stuff. It's just that all the
binaries and libraries are really really big. I'm not sure what to do.
Of course, for booting from cd, this is not a problem.
And I was hoping to have a boot disk/root disk pair all ready for testing
purposes today. Oh well.
In other news, I'll be talking to the procps maintainer later about why
the SMP part of the latest top doesn't work. Anyone worked with
procps-2.0.7 on their Alphas?
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
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