Re: Acer Aspire One (150)
On Wed, November 12, 2008 4:49 pm, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: > While I don't have a Acer Aspire I do have a netbook of some kind and > I would like to raise the general issue that you get with them. They > don't have CD drives. From the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like > too big a deal for you as you have an external one (although you have > dropped in to the kernel debugger...) but I would imagine that many > people don't have such a luxury. > > I think USB flash images are the way to go and I dug up a script from > Dario Freni on FreeBSD front for converting ISO images to USB disc > images[1]. I think this is a start and I would like to encourage the > creation of one for the DragonFly Project. I want to work on this but > it's bound to take me a while :) Anyone got any tips? Looking at the script, it appears to mount the ISO and then copy the files over to the USB drive. The nrelease process for building a LiveCD on DragonFly puts together the same set of system files in the process; you could probably use that process to create the USB drive. It'd even be able to "clone" an up-to-date system similar in spirit, if not in method, to what Constantine described. Also, if you're lacking a CDROM but have a workable network connection, the netboot facility on the DragonFly CD works very well; you just need a network connection and another device to boot the CD on. I was able to use it with a old desktop chassis that had only the CPU, RAM, and CDROM still installed.
Re: Acer Aspire One (150)
On 12/11/2008, Christopher Rawnsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I don't have a Acer Aspire I do have a netbook of some kind and I > would like to raise the general issue that you get with them. They don't > have CD drives. From the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like too big a > deal for you as you have an external one (although you have dropped in to > the kernel debugger...) but I would imagine that many people don't have such > a luxury. > > I think USB flash images are the way to go and I dug up a script from Dario > Freni on FreeBSD front for converting ISO images to USB disc images[1]. I > think this is a start and I would like to encourage the creation of one for > the DragonFly Project. I want to work on this but it's bound to take me a > while :) Anyone got any tips? > > References: > [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4420AF56.60106 > (Script is garbled a little so I've attached a cleaned up one) IMHO, that's the general problem with FreeBSD / DragonFly -- it's not possible to install them from an existing installation, at least not if you want to use the officially supported installation procedure. What I do when I want to install OpenBSD is: download an appropriate bsd.rd [0] to an existing OpenBSD installation on a USB HDD, boot from the said USB HDD on the new hardware to which brand-new HDD we're about to install an OS, type "boot bsd.rd" (or whatever the name you've given to your copy of a bsd.rd for this specific installation), and there we go -- no CDs wasted and no netboot configuration or expertise required, and we could easily be using the latest bsd.rd, so no further updates would be required after the installation. The above procedure is much better for the environment and usually saves a lot of time. YMMV. Cheers, Constantine. [0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#bsd.rd
Re: Acer Aspire One (150)
While I don't have a Acer Aspire I do have a netbook of some kind and I would like to raise the general issue that you get with them. They don't have CD drives. From the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like too big a deal for you as you have an external one (although you have dropped in to the kernel debugger...) but I would imagine that many people don't have such a luxury. I think USB flash images are the way to go and I dug up a script from Dario Freni on FreeBSD front for converting ISO images to USB disc images[1]. I think this is a start and I would like to encourage the creation of one for the DragonFly Project. I want to work on this but it's bound to take me a while :) Anyone got any tips? References: [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4420AF56.60106 (Script is garbled a little so I've attached a cleaned up one) -- Chris
Re: about C getline function
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:54:28PM +0100, dark0s Optik wrote: > Where is defined getline C function in DragonFlyBSD ? There is no getline function in C. There is fgets and the more useful, but less portable fgetln. Joerg
about C getline function
Where is defined getline C function in DragonFlyBSD ?
Re: PKGSRCGFE=PKGSRC GRAPHICAL FRONT END
I think that I can solve problem with pkg_add in pkgsrcgfe in some day. savio 2008/11/11, dark0s Optik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The code is attached and is DragonFlyBSD licensed. > I must add mirror button for choose mirror in pkg_add operation. > The code must have improving. > Can you tell me suggestions and other all things. > I hope that it can serve for spread DragonFly. > > savio > > 2008/11/11, Steve O'Hara-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:13:02 +0100 >> "dark0s Optik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My code can't be included in DragonflyBSD directly, because it need >>> for Gtk+ 2, Glib and related library. What is pattern for copyright >>> me. >> >> It's sounding to me like a good idea would be to commit it to >> pkgsrc-wip where it can be picked up by other pkgsrc users and tried on >> other pkgsrc platforms. >> >> -- >> C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays >> The computer obeys and wins.| A better way to focus the >> sun >> You lose and Bill collects. |licences available see >> |http://www.sohara.org/ >> > > > -- > only the paranoid will survive > -- only the paranoid will survive
