Hi,
I have been playing around with 15-Beta4 these last days.
As discussed in the current mailinglist the OLD DVD-R format
of 4.7 GB is no longer
large enough to include all thats needed. I propose that
the recommendation for 15.0 release
will be to use the 8.5 GB DVD-DL media ( Dual Layer ) if you
need to use OPTICAL dvd.
I have used DVD+R-DL with no issues for the 15-ALPHA and
15-BETA snapshots.
Im happy to report that installing Packages from Installmedia
now is working.
Its possible to do :
# mkdir /dist
# mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist
# export REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos
# pkg bootstrap
# pkg install xorg gnome kde firefox sddm
*However there are no Graphics drivers on the install-DVD.iso.
these should be added *
so that the novice user can install a working Desktop from the
installmedia.
Me being an Nvidia guy, had to do the following via the internet
connection to get the KDE-6 desktop working .
someone used to build AMD-GPU / INTEL-GPU setups should list
whats needed for these GPUs .
Obviously establishing the network connection. ( by answering
the questions in the installer )
then;
# pkg install nvidia-drm-kmod nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings
nvidia-texture-tools
# sysrc linux_enable="YES"
# sysrc sddm_enable="YES"
# sysrc kld_list="nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm"
# echo "hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1" >> /boot/loader.conf
# kldload linux linux64
# pkg install linux_base-rl9-9
# echo "proc /proc procfs rw 0 0" >>
/etc/fstab
# echo "linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0
0" >> /etc/fstab
# echo "linsysfs /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0
0" >> /etc/fstab
*Reboot !*
( and you need to select Plasma/X11 in the SDDM menu ,
after reboot )
SO in all these 15 commands results in a working graphical
desktop .
To achive FreeBSD adoption on laptops, this needs to be
made availbel,
Put in a menu or put in a script so a novice user can
run it.
Regards
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist
