[Glibc-bsd-devel] GNU/kFreeBSD LiveCD

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Robert, et al

Hi Dale!

> 1.  I can ls, cat and pipe to more, but when I tried to look at the 
> mounted filesystems df gave the following:
> 
> df: cannot read table of mounted file system. No such file or directory

This is because we don't have mtab (yet). It'll be fixed soon when mtab
support is implemented in libpmount.

> info: Terminal type 'dumb' is not smart enought to run info
> 
> pico, nano, etc give similar terminal errors.

TERM should be set to "cons25". However, we don't know which out of init,
getty and login is in charge for setting the TERM variable. If you find out,
please tell us so we can fix it.

> Is there any way to load this BSD CD image into ram?

Not that I know of, sorry.

> I'm very pleased to see that you have followed through on this BSD 
> project. I know the initial Debian response was ... well negative

Not that negative AFAIK. Ports based on kernels of *BSD have just been
somewhat ignored by the Debian community, and it'll be like this untill we
gain more momentum (which hopefuly will happen soon).

> As I am more interested in diversity I'm glad for the success and, 
> although I haven't much "free" time I'll do what I can to help with 
> testing and documentation.

That's nice.

> BTW, what does the "k" in "GNU/kFreeBSD" mean?

It stands for "kernel of". Calling the system GNU/kernelofFreeBSD would be
too ugly, so we abbreviated it.

> I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC me in your replies. 
> (Should I sign up on the list?

Well I don't claim that you should, but I do encourage you to do so =)

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
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