Re: Soekris net4801 and DragonFly BSD

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mischa Peters wrote:
> Thomas Nikolajsen wrote:
> > Works like a charm here (just bought a soekris 4801 too ;-):
> > Just create file /pfi.conf on FAT formatted usb pen-drive:
> > sshd_enable="YES"
> > pfi_rc_actions="sshd"
> > pfi_set_root_password="YourSecret"
> > pfi_sshd_permit_root_login="YES"
>
> This indeed works like a charm. After starting getty on ttyd0, and login 
> with "installer" I get the following:
>
> login: installer
> Last login: Thu Jan  4 22:51:27 from 10.1.0.23
> Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> DragonFly 1.8.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #2: Mon Mar 26 08:03:12 PDT 2007
>
> Welcome to DragonFly!
>
> Starting installer.  Reading /etc/pfi.conf ...
> /usr/local/bin/installer: cannot create /dev/ttyv0: Device not configured
> vidcontrol: getting active vty: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Installer started

The installer tries to launch a second vty to display stuff.  I don't know how that is supposed to work via ssh.  I always went the manual fdisk+disklabel+newfs+cpdup route.

maybe a new installer version would fix that?

cheers
 simon

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