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Date:      Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:05:48 +0000
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer
Message-ID:  <4D71542C.6040607@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=i5jXJt6uSqoCuwxN6uD483NZ7Lv6FYg5Kcaat@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/03/2011 20:24, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
> <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a future
>> merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace sysinstall on
>> the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would like to pull this
>> switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March.
>>
>> A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make release
>> must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get non-sysinstall
>> media):
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff
>>
>> Test ISOs for amd64 and i386 can be found here:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-amd64-20110222.iso.bz2
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110224.iso.bz2
>>
>> More recent test ISOs, as well as ones for other architectures, may be
>> available at:
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall
> Any chance of a memstick.img version being made available?
>
> Or, does anyone have instructions on how to convert the ISO images
> into memstick images?  Preferably using a Linux station, not a FreeBSD
> station.
>
> I have a beautiful 24-drive system here just crying out for testing
> 9-CURRENT and ZFSv28, but it doesn't have any bootable media except
> USB sticks.  And the 2011-01-* memstick snapshot of 9-CURRENT fails
> with "can't create device node in /dev" errors when trying to newfs
> the CompactFlash disk that will be /.
>
Its always worth having a go with the images from
http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots
http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/9.0-HEAD-20110304-JPSNAP/cdrom/FreeBSD-9.0-HEAD-20110304-JPSNAP-amd64-amd64-memstick.img
for example.

Vince



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