From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 20:46:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F7B106564A; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 20:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC728FC12; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 20:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so1024950yxl.13 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:46:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=28W+1CaOA1qxqlTmUv491BCcjp0g+/UfrKW6Yj4ILhs=; b=MwJu/PjqtmGLi1+yGO18bSBhNCKaeSqb3IW4/JIx6jCGuaXTfdTO5ZHa0sY7tld16C PokK8UI6bXsbJo6ibj6aQLtZ9hZjfUvu2jVhkWfTm7zpWoEDyeL+VQ2Qx3lznzg6IYoC Z0grPa8+2C7iwsE12PhnmDeOgrEM2roM8GdOk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=cdkEI9MEg/ltrIzf5AiGj+J+3T1e/Lq1JFfxamXO/OZVbsIUpdWJGb/PZXSBU7NbkA Y6RfWVfrrDRFphOiRLDyJZcCHWzNZ9QVgVvOPPBR7Afa/nE9rqdtHBrN5iyu6AoAn4Om kqVUwx0aZASoCbVHSOmENFXjni11YGDVfVWFI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.102.11 with SMTP id e11mr450842anm.60.1299270260113; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.171.8 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:24:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:24:20 -0800 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current Current , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer 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: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:46:06 -0000 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 /. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com