Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 48 MB RAM
Hello! First of all, thank you everybody for your suggestions! :) Next: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 07:42:19 +0100 Thomas Nikolajsen thomas.nikolaj...@mail.dk wrote: Our installer isn't a small program, it isn't supposed to work on small mem systems. In such case it is good to know that it is still possible to run it (just like I described in my previous message). Please do setup youself (installer capabilities are quite basic anyway), please read rc.conf.5: 'man rc.conf, or http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=rc.confsection=ANY . This has links to other commands / setup files; our handbook also has info on this. This way you will also learn much more :) Yes, of course, I'll do that. The reasons I ran the 'installer' were: 1. I still know too little about DragonFlyBSD configuration (well, actually, about any *BSD system configuration) and needed a quick start. 2. To see what I can use this installer for. Next I surely will start tuning the configuration files step by step. Anyway building non trivial programs isn't possible on a low mem system (if you can run gcc(1) at all), so likely you will not have much use for what 'make pkgsrc-create' fetches; if you like it anyway just fetch the files in tar format, as suggested in this thread. I used to build a lot of programs on this machine under GNU/Linux using the CRUX's ports tree. So it should be quite possible to compile some software on it (for example, I always used a self-compiled Transmission torrent-client). And also, somebody pointed out in this thread that the .tar archive with the pkgsrc tree may not align well with my current DragonFlyBSD version, or have I misunderstood something? Anyway, where can I download the archive with the pkgsrc tree? Thanks, Vladimir - v...@ukr.net
Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 48 MB RAM
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: And also, somebody pointed out in this thread that the .tar archive with the pkgsrc tree may not align well with my current DragonFlyBSD version, or have I misunderstood something? Anyway, where can I download the archive with the pkgsrc tree? ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz I'll go into detail on the version issue. There are quarterly releases of pkgsrc, labeled by year and quarter. The most recent one is 2011Q4. The next one will be 2012Q1. Those quarterly releases are made with a few weeks of bugfixing in pkgsrc, with no drastic changes, so they should have more working, stable packages than during normal pkgsrc development. DragonFly 3.0 was built with 2011Q4, so any existing packages on there were from 2011Q4. That pkgsrc tarball represents pkgsrc as it is this week, so it may build newer versions of some packages, including any that came with your DragonFly installation. That's not necessarily bad; it just means that some pkgsrc packages already on your system may be upgraded as a consequence of using this newer pkgsrc tarball. There is a chance there would be more packages in pkgsrc that would not build when it's not a quarterly build. For example, if a frequently-used library like gettext or libjpeg was being upgraded, and a lot of packages would need to be changed to accommodate that. The pkg_radd tool will download pre-built binary packages, but they are built using a quarterly release, so again you may have version mismatches if you download the tarball and build something from that, and then use pkg_radd to download something else that is dependent on an older version of the same library. There is no pkgsrc tarball that goes with 2011Q4, that I know of, which would solve this problem. My advice would be to download the tarball, untar it to /usr/pkgsrc, and then go from there. Binary packages would be faster, but it'll require a bit more fiddling in case of conflicts, and I don't want to throw that at you as you are learning a new system.
Re: Install DragonFlyBSD on 48 MB RAM
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:33:35PM -0500, Justin Sherrill wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: And also, somebody pointed out in this thread that the .tar archive with the pkgsrc tree may not align well with my current DragonFlyBSD version, or have I misunderstood something? Anyway, where can I download the archive with the pkgsrc tree? ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz [...] There is no pkgsrc tarball that goes with 2011Q4, that I know of, which would solve this problem. Justin, the tarball you have linked to _is_ 2011Q4. It may also be downloaded from this url to get a more explicit name: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q4/pkgsrc-2011Q4.tar.gz -- Francois Tigeot
