From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 6 17:27:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F9316C4A7 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:27:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dagobah.rfc1149.org (dagobah.rfc1149.org [217.160.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B8F43D5A for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:27:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dslb-084-061-132-118.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.61.132.118] helo=[192.168.0.199]) by dagobah.rfc1149.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FnfKW-000IfS-M4; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:27:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4485BAB0.9010806@uni-paderborn.de> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:26:08 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Turner References: <4467E117.8070301@fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <4467E117.8070301@fubar.geek.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RFC-Spam-Score: -3.8 (---) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:50:08 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot (test on Tohsiba M400) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:27:11 -0000 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