27 Feb
2025
27 Feb
'25
2:23 a.m.
Hello Anyone interested in this silliness , I am just recently trying
to reacquaint myself with this os . Which I had a decent passing knowledge of
at one time . Not any real OS level or driver coding , But was least decently
acquainted . Now on with the preliminaries ...
Any good software items to update on this ol'thing that give me a better chance
of completing this task , Greatly welcome .
I have folowed , ths article which is a copy from (imo) several places , tho
all of them are using a axp-Emulator .
<https://gist.github.com/jamesy0ung/eeac82997ebeae92873d1f2844a14ac3>
I am using (I'll admit) a REAL AlphaStation 200 (4/100) with 384MB main memory &
three disks all are U160's 2x4G+1x72G , OS is installed on the 72G(now) & has a
/home dir for users rather that the default location . See info & error during
make of gcc . Those numbers for the allocation & total have been exactly the
same accross many iterations of attempts in that exact file .
# sizer -v
HP Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650); Sun Feb 23 19:43:32 AKST 2025
It is at patch level 008 .
and had successfully compiled & installed all the prerequisites shown in the
article mentioned above .
It Seems the OS doesn't know how to access the swap properly .
root@as200:/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7# env
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/dt/bin:~/bin:.
make
... many lines snipped ...
/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7/host-alpha-dec-osf5.1b/prev-gcc/xgcc
-B/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7/host-alpha-dec-osf5.1b/prev-gcc/
-B/usr/local/alpha-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ -c -g -$
cc1: out of memory allocating 135816 bytes after a total of 796519376 bytes
make[3]: *** [fold-const.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7/host-alpha-dec-osf5.1b/gcc'
make[2]: *** [all-stage2-gcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7'
make[1]: *** [stage2-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/buildnfs/gcc-4.4.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2
# swapon -s
Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk2g:
Allocated space: 249774 pages (1.91GB)
In-use space: 1520 pages ( 0%)
Free space: 248254 pages ( 99%)
Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk1b:
Allocated space: 49152 pages (384MB)
In-use space: 1630 pages ( 3%)
Free space: 47522 pages ( 96%)
Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk0b:
Allocated space: 49152 pages (384MB)
In-use space: 1618 pages ( 3%)
Free space: 47534 pages ( 96%)
Total swap allocation:
Allocated space: 348078 pages (2.66GB)
In-use space: 4768 pages ( 1%)
Available space: 343310 pages ( 98%)
# hwmgr show scsi
SCSI DEVICE DEVICE DRIVER NUM DEVICE FIRST
HWID: DEVICEID HOSTNAME TYPE SUBTYPE OWNER PATH FILE VALID PATH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
42: 0 as200 cdrom none 0 1 cdrom0 [0/4/0]
43: 1 as200 disk none 2 1 dsk0 [1/0/0]
44: 2 as200 disk none 2 1 dsk1 [1/1/0]
45: 3 as200 disk none 2 1 dsk2 [1/2/0]
# hwmgr -view dev
HWID: Device Name Mfg Model Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3: /dev/dmapi/dmapi
4: /dev/scp_scsi
5: /dev/kevm
29: /dev/disk/floppy0c 3.5in floppy fdi0-unit-0
42: /dev/disk/cdrom0c TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1401 bus-0-targ-4-lun-0
43: /dev/disk/dsk0c IBM DDRS-34560D bus-1-targ-0-lun-0
44: /dev/disk/dsk1c COMPAQ BD07286224 bus-1-targ-1-lun-0
45: /dev/disk/dsk2c COMPAQ ST34371W bus-1-targ-2-lun-0
46: /dev/random
47: /dev/urandom
Tia , JimL
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