Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:31:59 +0800 From: Alie Tan <alie@affle.com> To: "george@ceetonetechnology.com" <george@ceetonetechnology.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Some ideas on Tim's script Message-ID: <CANuCnH_JmBSu-KjAhH5cVJGVbW3ny0nUnw-3UDxxGLjNDDHH6Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <51092D3A.4060608@ceetonetechnology.com>
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Hi On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, George Rosamond < george@ceetonetechnology.com> wrote: > I mentioned this to Tim offline a while back, but I have some quick thoughts on options for the scripts. > > A bunch of us in NYC*BUG have been hacking on Soekris and Alix boards with i386 for a long while, which lays the basis for some of these thoughts. > > But first, with 8G images, I had to adjust the config.sh's SD_SIZE below 7900 for Kingston SD Cards to fit. I can give more specifics if desired. Anyone else experience that? You can use diskinfo to get sector size and disk size in sector. I would like to recommed to use sector for SD_SIZE. So you can automate SD_SIZE value. > > In terms of /etc/fstab, I think adding tmpfs to the kernel would be useful. Without it, using md(4) for /var/log, /tmp and /var/tmp is certainly a nice way to minimize disk writes. > > It might also make sense to add rc_debug="YES" and rc_info="YES" to the default /etc/rc.conf. Most users are testing right now, and it's only logical for the pool of people hacking on them. > > And maybe to add the relevant ntpdate(8) settings to /etc/rc.conf. > > Once there is a consistent and official ARM pkgng repo, it would be useful to have that set in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf > > On that note: in the absence of USB and the ability to use it to do ports stuff on the BBone itself, any decent ARM package repositories out there? I've seen some moving through this list. > > pkgbeta.freebsd.org no longer contains ARM, only i386/amd64. Any ideas why? > > And again, thanks enormously for the work everyone has done. It's appreciated wider and further than I think anyone realizes. As some of you may know, we established contacts with CircuitCo who offered their software engineer's ear. Ping me offlist if you want to contact him. > > George > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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