Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:41:18 +0100 From: Christoph Schug <chris+freebsd-questions@schug.net> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported Message-ID: <20070206154118.GE14851@voodoo.schug.net> In-Reply-To: <20070206083339.GA1936@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20070205142743.GA4339@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20070205161034.GB24367@voodoo.schug.net> <20070206083339.GA1936@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > > Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works > > right and report back the result to the list. > > Thanks much for the info. Sure enough I'd like to try FreeBSD 7 but > I'm running into kinda chicken-and-egg-problem here: With the box in > question cut off the net (because the NIC isn't working) I wonder how > I can get the FreeBSD 7 sources onto that box? Why not just get the latest ISO of FreeBSD 7? See [1]. > Besides that - how/where should I fetch the FreeBSD 7 sources from? Hmm, the only way I can think of is fetching the sources in a working maching, make a tarball of it, burn it on CD and untar the sources in the blade. > what cvsup-file should I use? > > Would changing "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6" to something like > "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7" be enough? Actually tag would be "*default release=cvs tag=.", see [2] for details. But shouldn't matter if you go the ISO^H^H^Heasy ;) way. [1] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200702/ [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Cheers, -cs
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