March bsdinstaller snapshot

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 15:54:26 UTC 2011


I just thought of a second way:
1) Download the bsdinstall image.
2) Make a copy of the image in another directory.
3) cp -R /path/to/kernel iso/path/to/kernel
4) Close and burn

I know the method works on Linux; so,it should work on BSD.






On 4/10/11, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Super Bisquit
>> <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What happens if you boot from the OF prompt?
>>
>> On 4/10/11, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
>> > Nathan & list,
>> >
>> > I just tried booting the bsdinstaller snapshot from March for
>> ppc32 on
>> > a last generation PowerBook G4 (HiRes 1.67GHz), but it shuts down
>> very
>> > shortly after starting to boot the kernel (I see the line "WITNESS
>> > support enabled...", and it shuts down right after I finish reading
>> > that line, there are a couple more lines, but I can't read them).
>> >
>> > Anyone else see this?
>>
>> If you have a stable kernel, try placing it on a usb key and booting
>> that kernel with the cd.
>>
>> That may work, I'm taking a wild guess.
>> >
>> > - Justin
>
> The same CD boots on a 1GHz G4 TiBook.
>
> Live CD is pretty slick on my TiBook.
>
> Just to be clear, I just noticed there are two WITNESS lines in
> dmesg.  On the AlBook, it stops really close to the first one, not the
> last one.  I have not tried another kernel on the AlBook.
>
> - Justin


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