Ever wonder how to save those crash dumps, especially if your /var is teeny-tiny? Wonder no more.
Matthew Dillon noted that including a debug kernel by default may make bug reports much easier, at the expense of a relatively small quantity of disk space. After some discussion, it was generally decided to be good enough to implement. (Strangely, it saves disk space, overall.)
Scott Ullrich mentioned that the BSD Installer with FreeBSD 5 is now available. Haters of sysinstall, rejoice!
Update: the FreeSBIE Project is now using it too.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert came up with a nice description of how to install DragonFly using tftp and nfs. Matthew Dillon found a way to get that almost automatic, with some dhcpd.conf changes.
The aforementioned spamblocks are now on the DragonFly mailing lists, except for bugs@.
Atte Peltomaki reports that F-Secure SSH builds and runs on DragonFly just fine.
If you have an existing DragonFly system, and want to use rm -I, it’s explained here.
Matthew Dillon changed the download page to note that dfly-stable-20041009.iso.gz is the best recent release to start with.
Matthew Dillon wrote a little more about how the VFS work is set up, and he posted a patch with his first day of work on the issue. (11,000 lines of code!) Don’t try it unless you feel really lucky.
Joerg Anslik pointed out that dreamsticker.de now has specific DragonFly case badges available. No image needed, no minimum order, and shipping outside of Germany is possible.
The DragonFly_Stable tag has been slipped up to correct a memory leak and incorporate the ‘rm -I’ fix. This does place the stble code right smack in the middle of the VFS changes, but those appear to be at a stable point right now.
In a recent post to kernel about adding devices, Matthew Dillon describes how and why device adding on DragonFly deviated from FreeBSD-4, and how it could (eventually) lead to a different sort of devfs.
The Installer is spreading – look at livebsd.com. Specifically, the 5th item down mentions using the Installer with FreeBSD 5.3b7.
Matthew Dillon found that his recent VFS changes made linux_base-8 work again. Be warned that these changes are in the not-necessarily-completely-stable current version of code, not stable.
Joerg Anslik sent along a note that dreamsticker.de took a supplied image and turned it into a 2.5 sq.cm case badge for him.
Joerg Anslik wrote: “Just order “3D-Wunschsticker” (5 is minimum) and send him a 300 dpi picture (or whatever) in a separate mail refering to the order number
you’ll receive.”
This should work for any Germany residents; the dreamsticker.de is in German so I can’t identify if they ship outside of the country.
OffMyServer.com has apparently donated an Intel-based blade server for general use in developing DragonFly. It’s being set up today by Devon H. O’Dell, as far as I know… Thanks, OffMyServer!
Update: Pictures!
Some problems have been reported now that the new code is in; this sort of trouble was anticpated, so stick to the DragonFly_Stable tag if you want to avoid this trouble.
George Georgalis found The C Book from 1991, which he said was helpful with learning.
Matthew Dillon pointed out just why the complete BSD license is reprinted in a file, instead of a reference to another location as is usually done with GNU.
Matthew Dillon has posted his 5th VFS patch; included is some backstory on just how the old and new APIs work.
Update: and it begins. This is going to be unique to DragonFly, probably.