Subject: Re: 1.4 install floppy truncated?
To: None <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/13/1999 14:38:10 
> From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>
> I tried installing 1.4 on an alpha today, and I noticed the following
> floppy disk images in the "floppy" directory:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 1129  netbsd  1474560 May 10 00:33 disk1of2
> -rw-r--r--  1 1129  netbsd   655360 May 10 00:33 disk2of2
>
> Is disk2of2 really the right size?  I ask because it failed to boot
> correctly :-/

It's great to see all the new alpha installs!

It is the right size, and it is not bootable. If what you mean is: it could
not be read when requested ("remove disk 1, insert disk 2", or whatever),
then the most likely explanation is "bad floppy media".

	ross.harvey@computer.org
------------------------------------ (Alpha software, do not distribute) Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better ---------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS Mhz null null open selct sig sig fork exec sh call I/O stat clos inst hndl proc proc proc --------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 500 0.7 4.7 20 25 0.06K 1.8 6 1.8K 6K 11K i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 333 1.1 3.9 17 25 0.04K 2.5 4 0.9K 4K 7K Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better ------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw --------- ------------- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 3 15 112 46 260 62 317 i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 9 34 79 35 184 44 244 *Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better ------------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 2p/0K Pipe AF UDP RPC/ TCP RPC/ TCP ctxsw UNIX UDP TCP conn --------- ------------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 3 26 34 62 98 1392 i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 9 34 34 71 91 483 File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better -------------------------------------------------------------- Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault --------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ----- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 129 59 510 134 154663 0.2K i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 126 52 395 148 13297 7.6K *Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better ----------------------------------------------------------- Host OS Pipe AF TCP File Mmap Bcopy Bcopy Mem Mem UNIX reread reread (libc) (hand) read write --------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- ----- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 79 78 37 88 149 78 77 148 128 i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 86 79 44 45 247 98 76 247 113 Memory latencies in nanoseconds - smaller is better (WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs) --------------------------------------------------- Host OS Mhz L1 $ L2 $ Main mem Guesses --------- ------------- --- ---- ---- -------- ------- alpha-net NetBSD 1.4.1 500 3 76 336 i386-netb NetBSD 1.4.1 333 9 105 221