Re: booting on the serial console

2010-03-03 Thread Joey Korkames
Usually, in BSD, you pass -P or -h to the /boot/loader in boot.config. But since that loader is now completely bypassed in the boot process, that doesn't work. I haven't found in the FreeBSD documentation what -P/-h actually *does* at the machine level, or rather if it passes "commandline" argumen

Re: Debian GNU/NetBSD

2009-04-14 Thread Joey Korkames
Sorry for the the thread necrophilia here, I only peruse the debian-bsd list from time to time. I have had no luck in getting at the old archive for this port. http://debian-bsd.lightbearer.com has been down and out of dns for awhile... NetBSD is an interesting project and has some interesting

netbsd-i386 apt archive gone?

2008-12-29 Thread Joey Korkames
I've been working on my Live (K)FreeBSD project and was attempting to package the makefs program (http://www.daemonology.net/makefs/) for Debian. makefs would allow userspace creation of rootfs/ramdisks from user space (so you could use your site's existing Debian/Linux server to assemble the l

Re: Can't sign packages on kFreeBSD because gpg wants /dev/tty

2008-11-27 Thread Joey Korkames
Picking up from http://teams.debian.net/lurker/message/20080215.164309.42c0261e.en.html ... I've just encountered the same behaviour. gpg needs /dev/tty but returns "No such device or address" and a quick `ls -la | grep tty` doesn't show it. devfs is mounted on /dev as Markus showed. But then: