Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Luca Favatella dixit: > > >Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? > > I don't see any technical reason why not. It probably depends > on the bootloader used. > > MirBSD uses the manifold-boot method with Mir

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:50:12AM +1100, Joshua Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 23:13 +0100, Luca Favatella wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? > > This could be useful to install kfreebsd-i386 (using d-i) on machines > > without cd/dvd driv

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Luca Favatella dixit: >Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? I don't see any technical reason why not. It probably depends on the bootloader used. MirBSD uses the manifold-boot method with MirBSD's loader. Grml uses the manifold-boot method with GNU GRUB 2. Others use ISOH

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Joshua Cummings
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 23:13 +0100, Luca Favatella wrote: > Hi. > > Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? > This could be useful to install kfreebsd-i386 (using d-i) on machines > without cd/dvd drive (e.g. eeepc laptop). > I used the d-i image to install kfreebsd-i386 on m

using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
Hi. Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? This could be useful to install kfreebsd-i386 (using d-i) on machines without cd/dvd drive (e.g. eeepc laptop). Cheers, Luca Favatella -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

[patch] pidfile_open (was: devd now running on my box)

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:09:19 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I was in the process to release a new upstream release for libbsd, and > can include those functions. I'll then proceed with an upload to > Debian. Find below a patch against the debian source. * debian/control (Description): Upd

freebsd-utils 8.0-2 MIGRATED to testing

2009-12-16 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the freebsd-utils source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 8.0-1 Current version: 8.0-2 -- This email is automatically generated once a day. As the installation of new packages into testing happens multiple times a day you will recei

Re: devd now running on my box

2009-12-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 15:21:59 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > I worked on devd and now I am able run the rc.suspend and rc.resume > scripts on my X31. To make that really useful I also ported acpiconf. Ah great! > I added new functions pidfile_* to libbsd and would like to know how > to procee

devd now running on my box

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! I worked on devd and now I am able run the rc.suspend and rc.resume scripts on my X31. To make that really useful I also ported acpiconf. I added new functions pidfile_* to libbsd and would like to know how to proceed: Create a Debian patch or talk to upstream and get it into their repo firs

Re: devd, acpiconf and such

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:10:07 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > As far as I know, no one is working on that. Ideally this should be > integrated to the freebsd-utils source package (possibly producing new > binary packages), but this is probably a detail, the most important job > being to port it to g

Re: installation fails

2009-12-16 Thread Anton Andreev
Hello again, The error messages start with: Setting up networking... Mounting local filesystems...mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such file or directory failed.(red) Then there is a message about "/dev/null" not found which I have experienced several times during the installation, but I have ignored.

Re: installation fails

2009-12-16 Thread Anton Andreev
Hello, >From the error messages you all seems right about not able to mount.I have >experienced it on both vmware and virtualbox. Maybe I will try and see if this manual workaround works. Please move this package to testing. Cheers, Anton - Original Message - From: "Aurelien Jarno" To