Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:05:48 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <4D71542C.6040607@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=i5jXJt6uSqoCuwxN6uD483NZ7Lv6FYg5Kcaat@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> <AANLkTi=i5jXJt6uSqoCuwxN6uD483NZ7Lv6FYg5Kcaat@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/03/2011 20:24, Freddie Cash wrote: > 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 /. > 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
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