Re: BSD Installer release 1

I would ask this elsewhere, but I figure it should be asked in front  
of an audience.

Andrew, would it be difficult for me to create an ISO from your  
source (most likely snagged from the perforce repo, or from a public  
tarball) so I can try it out on sparc64, check for any wonderful  
cross-platform bugs, etc.

I also have a Type 5 keyboard and a 15" Sun monitor that i'd love to  
break out of storage to see if they work any better with RELENG_6 and  
the BSDinstaller as opposed to 5.3 and sysinstall ....

I don't think beta testing is outlawed by the Google Summer of Code  
laws, so I would love to try the bsdinstaller out sparc64 ;)

(hurry! one of the CentOS developers is probably going to steal my  
Ultra 2 soon)

-R. Tyler Ballance


On Jul 28, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> Announcing the first test release of a BSDInstaller-ified Install ISO
> for FreeBSD.
>
> I am pleased to announce the first beta release of BSD Installer  
> powered
> FreeBSD Install CD's. It is both for wider testing and feedback on to
> gauge the progress I've been making for the Google Summer of Code.  
> This
> is based on RELENG_6 and unfortunately only for i386.
>
> It is available from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/SOC2005/bsdinstaller/ and should  
> be on
> mirrors soon.
>
> If you find any bugs not already listed in the Known Bugs section of
> this email or in http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller
> please email me at soc-andrew_at_freebsd.org to help fix the bugs.
>
> Details:
>
> There are three virtual consoles running:
> * ttyv0: The frontend
> * ttyv1: The backend
> * ttyv2: A standard login screen to login as root with no password.
>
> To see the installation log change to console ttyv1. It is also  
> written
> to /var/log/install.log on the installed disk.
>
> Minimum Memory:
> * 64M
>
> Known Bugs:
>
> * Can only install to one drive, can't have / on ad0 and /usr on ad1
> * Cannot install source
> * Cannot install ports tree
> * Cannot install packages
> * The "Display system startup messages" window dosen't display  
> anything
> * Sendmail complains about not being able to change dir to
> /var/spool/clientmqueue
>    Workaround: run "chown smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue"
> * "Exit to Live CD" dosn't work
>    Workaround: change to ttyv2, login as root no password
> * dhclient fails as /var/db is missing as well as other errors.
>
> Testing
>
> * There has only been minimal testing of the "Configure an Installed
> System" menu. Most of the options should work.
> * The "Install extra software packages" option dosn't work
> * I havn't looked at "Setup NetBoot Install Services" menu, I have no
> idea if it will work or not
>
>
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