From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 21:05:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384991065675; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAEF8FC12; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mac2.unsane.co.uk (mac2.unsane.co.uk [10.10.10.191] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p24L5ooD024992 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:05:50 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4D71542C.6040607@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:05:48 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freddie Cash References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Current , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:05:52 -0000 On 04/03/2011 20:24, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: >> BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a future >> merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace sysinstall on >> the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would like to pull this >> switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. >> >> A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make release >> must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get non-sysinstall >> media): >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff >> >> Test ISOs for amd64 and i386 can be found here: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110222.iso.bz2 >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110224.iso.bz2 >> >> More recent test ISOs, as well as ones for other architectures, may be >> available at: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall > Any chance of a memstick.img version being made available? > > Or, does anyone have instructions on how to convert the ISO images > into memstick images? Preferably using a Linux station, not a FreeBSD > station. > > I have a beautiful 24-drive system here just crying out for testing > 9-CURRENT and ZFSv28, but it doesn't have any bootable media except > USB sticks. And the 2011-01-* memstick snapshot of 9-CURRENT fails > with "can't create device node in /dev" errors when trying to newfs > the CompactFlash disk that will be /. > Its always worth having a go with the images from http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/9.0-HEAD-20110304-JPSNAP/cdrom/FreeBSD-9.0-HEAD-20110304-JPSNAP-amd64-amd64-memstick.img for example. Vince