Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:31:11 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DP1 release candidate 1 Message-ID: <p0510152cb8c161daca4b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020321195254.N90182@locore.ca> References: <20020321195254.N90182@locore.ca>
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At 7:52 PM -0500 3/21/02, Jake Burkholder wrote: >I've uploaded a new iso image and distribution tarball. >Once again you can get this stuff here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/ Well, I bought myself a cheap ultra-10 and used the ISO here to install onto it. Installing it wasn't too bad, and I seem to be up and running OK. One thing I wasn't sure of: can I enable softupdates on the partitions? In a different message, Bruce A. Mah wrote: >Hi folks-- > >I've activated the sparc64 install document in the release >documentation for 5.0-CURRENT. >The main reason I'm activating the document up now is to give the >translation teams time to work on it before 5.0-DP1. > >In the src tree: src/release/doc/en_US-ISO8859-1/installation/sparc64/ >Rendered versions: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ while doing the install, and it was very helpful up to around section 1.5. At that point it gets rather low on details, although that was far enough along that I was able to fumble my way thru the rest of it. Should I send along a few lines describing the exact steps that I went thru? Anything I write would only cover the cdrom-install, not the network install (although I imagine it would also apply there). I was also thinking it might be nice if the initial "distrib" tar file included an initial etc/fstab.ad0 file. That way, people who are booting up off disk ad0 could just cp etc/fstab.ad0 etc/fstab and they'd have the first few partitions defined. Even if they did not go with a bland/standard partitioning scheme, this would provide an example to get the ball rolling. Also I found it useful to type in: stty rows 34 columns 80 before trying to edit things at the console. would it make sense to put that in the some login-file for /root, setting it if `tty` = /dev/ofwcons? I've only been on for a little while, so that's about all I have to suggest for helpful changes to the image. Where should I send suggestions for the installation notes? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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