Re: atari sysinst.fs overflow again

[David Ross <randomdross00%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Well, I'm not sure if src/distrib/atari/floppies/prepare
> is still necessary..
> (I don't know in which case it's used and I have never tried it)
I believe the prepare floppy is ancient, and maybe had something to do
with preparing a disk with AHDI compatible partitioning or something
like that.  I don't use the prepare floppy in my install process.

Dave

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article <171122002316.M0107051%mirage.ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>,
> Izumi Tsutsui  <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
>>christos@ wrote:
>>
>>> all the sysctls to find the root device can be deleted and
>>> the 'mount -u ${rootdev} /' can be changed to 'mount -u /'
>>> or 'mount -u /kern/rootdev /'. All the atari kernels seem
>>> to have kernfs.
>>
>>It requies /sbin/mount_kernfs in sysinst.fs instead,
>>but it could be smaller than /sbin/sysctl?
>>
>>> Then to find the disks one can:
>>>
>>>     sed -n -e 's/\(^[ws]d[0-9]\) at/\1/p' /kern/msgbuf
>>
>>Well, I'm not sure if src/distrib/atari/floppies/prepare
>>is still necessary..
>>(I don't know in which case it's used and I have never tried it)
>
> It is smaller on x86:
>
> [12:45pm] 139>ls -l /sbin/sysctl  /sbin/mount_kernfs
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14520 Feb 12  2017 /sbin/mount_kernfs*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  56288 Feb 12  2017 /sbin/sysctl*
>
> Not only that, but if we are not using KERNFS during the installation
> we should remove it from the kernels :-)
>
> OTOH, I think leaving kernfs and changing sysctl to mount_kernfs is better.
>
> christos
>