BSD Installer release 1
R. Tyler Ballance
tyler at tamu.edu
Fri Jul 29 06:04:48 GMT 2005
I would ask this elsewhere, but I figure it should be asked in front
of an audience.
Andrew, would it be difficult for me to create an ISO from your
source (most likely snagged from the perforce repo, or from a public
tarball) so I can try it out on sparc64, check for any wonderful
cross-platform bugs, etc.
I also have a Type 5 keyboard and a 15" Sun monitor that i'd love to
break out of storage to see if they work any better with RELENG_6 and
the BSDinstaller as opposed to 5.3 and sysinstall ....
I don't think beta testing is outlawed by the Google Summer of Code
laws, so I would love to try the bsdinstaller out sparc64 ;)
(hurry! one of the CentOS developers is probably going to steal my
Ultra 2 soon)
-R. Tyler Ballance
On Jul 28, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:
> Announcing the first test release of a BSDInstaller-ified Install ISO
> for FreeBSD.
>
> I am pleased to announce the first beta release of BSD Installer
> powered
> FreeBSD Install CD's. It is both for wider testing and feedback on to
> gauge the progress I've been making for the Google Summer of Code.
> This
> is based on RELENG_6 and unfortunately only for i386.
>
> It is available from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/SOC2005/bsdinstaller/ and should
> be on
> mirrors soon.
>
> If you find any bugs not already listed in the Known Bugs section of
> this email or in http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller
> please email me at soc-andrew at freebsd.org to help fix the bugs.
>
> Details:
>
> There are three virtual consoles running:
> * ttyv0: The frontend
> * ttyv1: The backend
> * ttyv2: A standard login screen to login as root with no password.
>
> To see the installation log change to console ttyv1. It is also
> written
> to /var/log/install.log on the installed disk.
>
> Minimum Memory:
> * 64M
>
> Known Bugs:
>
> * Can only install to one drive, can't have / on ad0 and /usr on ad1
> * Cannot install source
> * Cannot install ports tree
> * Cannot install packages
> * The "Display system startup messages" window dosen't display
> anything
> * Sendmail complains about not being able to change dir to
> /var/spool/clientmqueue
> Workaround: run "chown smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue"
> * "Exit to Live CD" dosn't work
> Workaround: change to ttyv2, login as root no password
> * dhclient fails as /var/db is missing as well as other errors.
>
> Testing
>
> * There has only been minimal testing of the "Configure an Installed
> System" menu. Most of the options should work.
> * The "Install extra software packages" option dosn't work
> * I havn't looked at "Setup NetBoot Install Services" menu, I have no
> idea if it will work or not
>
>
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