BSDInstaller snapshot (test on Tohsiba M400)
Arne Schwabe
schwabe at uni-paderborn.de
Tue Jun 6 17:27:11 UTC 2006
Andrew Turner schrieb:
> I am pleased to announce the third public beta of the BSDInstaller on
> FreeBSD.
>
I thought I would give BSDInstaller ai shot on my shiny new M400
> Major changes in this release are:
>
> - Lua and required libraries are now installed from packages
> - Allow the installation of kernels other than GENERIC
>
> The ISO image is available from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/bsdinstaller/7.0-20060512-BSDINSTALLER-i386-disc1.iso
> or your local mirror.
>
Installation works well but I ran in to a few iusses:
The parition editor does not accept a parition table that does not end
in a cylinder :(
It asked whether I would like to shrink or expand the parition where my
windows (with ntfs) is installed on. I prefer to leave my windows
parition alone. If you have a FreeBSD slice that does not end at a
cylinder boundary the label editor won't work correctly if one entry is "*".
dhclient did not work:
On a console I got:
# dhclient em0
chroot
exiting.
#
A strange sidemark: If I am booting from the installer cd em0 is
working, If booting from harddisk (even with the installer cd kernel)
em0 complains about checksum errors. :/
> As with the previous Beta release there are three virtual consoles
> available:
> * ttyv0: The front end
> * ttyv1: The back end
> * ttyv2: A standard login screen to login as root with no password
Would be nice to have either more ttys with root shell or "screen" on
the cd so I could that for more shells (starting logins on other screens
works but is uncomfortable).
Arne
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