Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:24:20 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <AANLkTi=i5jXJt6uSqoCuwxN6uD483NZ7Lv6FYg5Kcaat@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> 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 /. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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