Little installation report

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Robin Elfrink wrote:
> 
> About a week ago I built myself a new livecd.iso to install Debian 
> GNU/kFreeBSD on another box.
> 
> I found that mkfs.ufs will not finish creating a filesystem, because it 
> wants user operator for something, and only root exists on the livecd. I 
> fixed this by letting FreeBSD install do the newfs, and kicking the box 
> before it starts installing base.

This is weird.  Do you remember the exact error?

> Also totd would not configure due to perl's geopt not being installed at 
> the time totd is configured.

See bug #289446.  This was worked around in latest crosshurd (1.7.6 as of now).

> It would be nice to have ssh installed by /native-install so I don't 
> have to switch monitor/keyboard cables every time I need to lookup 
> something on the net while trying to install

We'd have to put it in the tarball, but in some situations it's a security
problem since the default root account is password-less (untill you set it up).

Also the tarball should only contain the minimal set of packages for you to
install anything else you want.

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