Computing related collection of stuff

18 August 2007

Installing DragonFlyBSD on a broken Laptop [DragonFlyBSD] — Patrick Georgi @ 21:11

So I installed dfly on my laptop now: 4 years old, keyboard broken, power plug socket somewhat broken, NIC socket somewhat broken, dvd drive broken (and removed by now).

How it’s done:

  1. Download and burn the installer ISO
  2. Boot on a different computer on the same network
  3. Select the Network install server on the second screen (after language selection) in the Installer
  4. Select the NIC to run it on
  5. PXE-Boot the laptop
  6. Get over the irritation of a NIC socket that has some defects (plugging in several times helped) - the dfly driver is more sensitive to that than the PXE driver that loaded the kernel
  7. Install on the Laptop as if you worked from the CD (actually, you do)
  8. Reboot Laptop
  9. Remove CD and reboot the other system
  10. Done

I have to say, I’m very pleased!

7 August 2007

What happens over at DragonFlyBSD? [DragonFlyBSD] — Patrick Georgi @ 5:43

Interview with Matt Dillon.
He talks about the future plans (incl. its clustering filesystem, syslink and all the other projects over there)

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