Snapshot 8.0-CURRENT-200807-amd64

[Florian Smeets]

Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Has anyone managed to install from the 8.0-CURRENT-200807-amd64
> snapshot?  The bootonly image couldn't find the distribution on the
> master site and disc1 gave me endless cpio "bad number" errors.
>

Only somewhat related. I built a snapshot of 8.0-CURRENT myself on 
10.07.2008.
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   41533440 Jul 10 02:50 
8.0-20080710-SNAP-amd64-bootonly.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  361127936 Jul 10 02:51 
8.0-20080710-SNAP-amd64-disc1.iso

and was able to install my MacBook Pro (using an external keyboard) and 
did not see any problems. So perhaps there is just something wrong with 
the files on the server you downloaded them from...

>
> It could be the hardware - it's a new MacBook Pro.  The keyboard
> kind of works but mostly generates wierd scan codes.  There may be
> other quirks.

I was not able to investigate the keyboard part any further yet :-(

Cheers,
Florian