--Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to report that Kfreebsd 8-28 netinstall--64 worked OK in Vmware 8.04!
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot-9/ + Installed wheezy/testing using proxy and Expert install on ZFS-only filesystem == OK - ZFS was a little hard to configure -- non-intuitive (needs some work ++ HELP screen with examples) + Lowmem installer component works OK :) ------ KfreeBSD ZFS-root HOWTO: (Basic root ZFS filesystem with noatime) Partition disks: Manual o If you have an existing ZFS config and want to wipe it out, 1st go to ZFS config in this menu and delete your pool(s); then: + Hit Enter on SCSI1 (da0) to write a new partition table o Use msdos partition table o Once partition table is written, go up to ZFS config ZFS + create main ZFS pool called "tank0" on (1) disk (da0) + Then create Logical volume called "root" -100MB of the entire size (given a 12GB disk, tank0 fills the entire disk with default size 11736MB; allocate 11636MB to root. PROTIP: Display config details before Finishing. o The installer will then ask you for the mount options for " / ". + Select noatime as mount option (keep the rest defaults! Label: none ; 5% reserved) - I did not allocate any swap space to start with since thisvm has 4GB RAM - installer will warn you, but you can create it later o Finish and write changes + Packages selection: Desktop, Fileserver, SSH, standard + Grub is fixed :) ------- BUG - on 1st boot after install, X tried to come up but only had a blank screen. FIX: I fixed it by killing the lightdm process and doing ' Xorg -configure ' as root, then copying the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and issuing ' startx ' as non-root user. Lightdm is still (re)booting to blank screen, so still have to manually fix by killing lightdm ++ ' startx '. BUG: After issuing ' reboot ', system hung. Hard-poweroff and cold-boot VM fixed this, but still boots to blank X screen. See above fix. BUG: Subsequent ' reboot ' still consistently hangs the system in the same place: Kernel messages follow: [[ acpi0: <INTEL 440BX> on motherboard acpi0: Power button (fixed) Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 950 ]] --- --My compliments, nice work so far on bugfixes, keep up the good work! KFBSD needs more testing in Vmware. (and Yes, I'm happy to volunteer!) Once we get X up and running as expected from the installer, I'll be happy to put up a VM on FreeOSZoo :) ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
