a fun project

[Don Wilde]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:

> Don Wilde wrote this message on Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:53 -0500:
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Pete French <
> petefrench at ticketswitch.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > That's why I'm talking about building an ftp mirror; I'm also thinking
> > that's going to be my best bet. Yes, it does have ethernet on the base
> > system, but the dmesg flew by too fast for me to see whether the probe
> > identified them. IIRC, they're Broadcom GBE's.
>
> Check out section 2.13.2 at:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html
>
> You can use the install cd for that "ftp mirror"...
>
> New news, guys. I successfully booted the AMD64 6.3-RELEASE kernel on our
big blade. I still have to deal with installation issues regarding loading
the disk, but this time it went all the way through. Still don't know why
7.0 didn't complete probing, but at least I can look forward to establishing
an amd64-compiled system and exploring further from there.
-- :D