As Erik P. Skaalerud pointed out in the bugs list, there’s been a lot of source changes lately. If you encounter an error when doing a buildworld/buildkernel, update your sources and try again. A number of people have managed to fall right inbetween updates lately.
The ISO on the DragonFly download page has been updated. This version has an an updated ATA driver, and some other patches that are not yet part of the normal codebase, in an effort to help out some folks that have been reporting installation difficulty.
Beta 1.2a, released as of Fri Jun 23 13:30:40 GMT 2004.
Andre Nathan made some nice “Powered By DragonFly” buttons.
The Download page has a new ‘known stable’ ISO image. The Threads page has been updated too.
Someone wrote a DragonFly BSD song. Don’t worry, it’s just the lyrics, not a crazy sound file. More usefully, that site has some notes on installation and using LDAP.
The DragonFly Installer page now has a spiffy text scroller which mentions, among other things, the Installer Wiki and Installer Scripts.
I somehow managed to miss this, but there’s been an update to Matt Dillon’s Diary page.
GoBSD.com has a ‘packages’ section which holds prebuilt software packages for DragonFly, suitable for adding with pkg_add -r packagename. It doesn’t happen to have many KDE packages, which can be very time-consuming to build by hand. However, there’s a whole bunch in a different directory, http://gobsd.com/packs/.
Apparently, there’s a ISC DHCP vulnerability just discovered – DragonFly could use an update.
Gabor Mickso linked to a story in Hungarian about the new installer; if you can’t read Hungarian, there’s plenty of (English) screenshots.
A newer version of the beta installer is up at http://www.livebsd.com/dfly.
Chris Pressey announced the DragonFly Installer has gone to ‘beta’ status; his announcement is pasted here:
Continue reading “Installer in beta”
Hey, look – a new installer screenshot of the curses frontend.
God a small hard drive and want to simulate a CD build? Try Chris Pressey’s ‘Mock CD‘ trick. (Link stolen from a mention on IRC.)
The libh project for FreeBSD was supposed to replace the creaky sysinstall program, though it hasn’t been worked on extensively enough to offer a real replacement. Robert Watson writes some interesting points on the right way to go about working on an installer.
Why do I point this out? The DragonFly Installer has followed this general plan already; it’s nice to have external verification that something was done right.
Chris Buechler found out that varsyms don’t work (yet) on a per-jail basis. Darn.
I’ve been remiss, and haven’t mentioned YONETANI Tomokazu’s ACPI patches. They aren’t in the tree yet, but if you have a laptop and want to try them out, they are at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/.