Re: Official TC3 powerpc image #1 seems small
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:20:30PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Hm, damn!
>
> Looks like that run failed (the script file just stops in the middle
> of the #3 file creation list, so I'm pretty dubious about that as well
> as CD#1) --- I'll do another lot from scratch, and see how it gets on.
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> It looks like the limit on the CD#1 my be a little small:
>
> CD 1 filled with 460977908 bytes ... (limit was 461373440)
>
> which seems to be a result of the BOOT_SIZE_1=120 in
>
> tools/boot/potato/boot-powerpc.calc
>
> being rather too large? Where does that number come from?
>
> I'm going to set it to 25 instead, and see how that comes out.
>
> Presumably this discrepancy is down to the fact that large chunks of
> tools/boot/potato/boot-powerpc have been commented out.
>
> It _might_ be nice if whoever looks after boot-powerpc were to keep
> boot-powerpc.calc in sync with changes they make. ;-)
>
> New images can be expected to start appearing in the next hour or so.
Hmm, I haven't touched it since before the .calc files were created,
but I remember needing an absurdly large size at one point to cover
some bizarre oversizing problem.
Dan
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