Re: Install ??
The installer is still broken.
I used the installer from 13.1.2010. I had to use the manual partitioning (the automatic did not work) and I choose to install only 79 packages - system utilities and the result was that the system has halted. I have chosen to use UFS file system.
It seems like a problem that was reported previously, which prevents the system from mounting the root file system, still exists.
Please fix the installer,
Cheers,
Anton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Petr Salinger" <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
To: billnickels@hotmail.com
Cc: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, 11 January, 2010 2:18:30 PM
Subject: Re: Install ??
> Followed the install through the return out of Alt-F3 back to Freebsd
> sysinstall. Instructions didn't mention any additional steps once back to
> sysinstall. Exited out. At boot the system comes up to a command line login.
> Entered root and the root prompt comes up without asking for passwd. That may
> be by design as I don't recall user setup ever running. Xserver-xorg isn't in
> the system and none of the debian package stuff is available either. I think
> I have missed some setup steps. Are there additional setup steps to take once
> back to sysinstall? Is xorg version from freebsd or debian? Should I start
> over( on vitualbox so not a big deal ) or can I continue with sysinstall from
> the command line or CD image?
It looks like you used the old modified FreeBSD sysinstall.
Now, the debian-installer images should be mature enough:
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/ and
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/
Anyway, you should have the basic system now.
Please add into /etc/apt/sources.list line like
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
and run "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade".
After that, you can install individual packages like
xorg, xserver-xorg etc using "apt-get install xorg".
The problem might be uninstalability
of some packages due to ongoing transition.
I recomend also to install 8.0 based kernel,
either kfreebsd-image-8-amd64 or choose one from
kfreebsd-image-8-486/kfreebsd-image-8-686/kfreebsd-image-8-686-smp.
Petr
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