Re: DragonFly RC1 ISO now available.

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> :> -On [20040628 09:42], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> :> 
> :>>   I'm too tired to announce it officially.  I'll put together a better
> :>>   blurb monday evening (and also announce it on the FreeBSD lists 
> :>>   monday evening).  But for now ... this is the time for locals to
> :>>   download!  The 1.0-RC1 ISO is now available!
> :> 
> :> 
> :> Will we feature the new installer?
> :
> :It's not there currently.
> :
> :For what it's worth, I think it's a definitely must-have for the official 
> :1.0-release! It might not be complete, but it's sure A LOT better than the 
> :manual way for most people. (And, if you don't like it/it doesn't work for 
> :you, you can still do it manually by exiting the installer to the shell).
>
>     I think it's possible but we're trying for an official release in ~7 days,
>     so the timing would be pretty tight.  Personally speaking I don't think
>     it's necessasry to rush and stress to get something into the first
>     release.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

precisely i must say i have a big problem with your RC1 ISO. I have 
tried it on vmware3, it works OK.
Unfortunately this was the last time i have seen it working :-(
I have tried it on 3 desktops, and a laptop it didn't boot at all, that
is the CD (it was more precisely a RW CD) was not recognized as a 
bootable CD. Back at home i have tried it on my wife's laptop
(IBM Thinkpad T40, Centrino based), here it booted, but extremely 
slowly. There was a long timeout recognizing the CD and after that
READ BIG errors. Finally i got the login prompt after perhaps 5 minutes
but could type nothing on the keyboard! I then rebooted without acpi in 
case it would help, but no luck (except i didn't see READ BIG errors).
To be sure i booted on the same laptop:
-the FreeBIE live CD based on FreeBSD-5.2.1 It worked perfectly 
including firing up XWindow. The ACPI stuff was recognized without any 
apparent error.
-the Knoppix 3.3 CD also worked perfectly although faster than the 
FreeBSD one.
Hence i suspect there are serious problems in the DFly ATA driver.