Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:37:37PM -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Following the work of Luca Favetella [1] during the Google Summer of
> > Code [2], I am happy to announce that a first version of the
> > debian-installer images are available here:
> >
> > http://temp.aurel32.net/d-i-kfreebsd/
> >
> > Here are the SHA512 of the two images:
> >
> > 754ab22022868a441e76c71d5a5c32b1bb0d5cb46ad7d8ca8da8b01bb5796d246bac34ad101d4f5c2e14798d526bbe93066207e1467efdbde59ccd72254129ce mini-kfreebsd-amd64-20090831.iso
> > c1bfa136ce6caabf39dba989fde08b3388d92754fdd14c71079a3fa5f5ba2938a6f82df899e6c34ae1ef2646e15e4046683ee76544875c670296f0fa0f3b3045 mini-kfreebsd-i386-20090831.iso
> >
> > Please test them and report problems here. If there are not too many
> > issues, we will make an official release, put the images on the
> > standard location [3] and make a wider announce (probably with "Bits
> > from GNU/kFreeBSD porters" on debian-devel-announce). You can find more
> > details about those images, including bugs or missing features, on the
> > wiki [4].
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Aurelien
> >
> > [1] http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/
> > [2] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2009
> > [3] http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/install-cd/
> > [4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/kFreeBSD
> >
>
> I tried the i386. Bailed on attempting to work out grub-pc which I
> already have grub installed from sid. I then tried to exit the install
> and add an entry to menu.list by hand which also failed. I forget the
> number (26 comes to mind) and I'd need to reboot to reproduce it at the
> moment. Perhaps I'm lacking something? I removed a partition Lenovo
> thinks I need to use XP, which was /dev/sda2 @5GG so I've added...
>
You mean have tried to skip the installation of grub-pc and it has
failed?
Note that FreeBSD need grub2, so adding the entry manually will only
work if you are using this version.
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Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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