Dragonfly BSD 2.2 installer bug
The new dragonfly bsd 2.2 install cd has two bugs.
The first one occurs in the curses installer, the input in the interface goes also in a under laying login on tty.
As a workaround you login and remove the /dev/ttyv1 entry in /etc/ttys and do "kill -1 1"
The second one occurs on the filesystem creation and looks like this: "/sbin/newfs_hammer -f -L ROOT /dev/ad0s2a failed with a return code of 1"
Look if the device exists in /dev, if not cd into /dev and do "sh MAKEDEV ad0s2a". Replace ad0s2a with your device identifier.
After that the installer should work happily. Big thx for the help from the #dragonflybsd channel on EFNet.
Dragonfly BSD 2.2 features HAMMER rootfs support for the first time and also HAMMER in 2.2 is considered to be "production ready".
Thanks, the MAKEDEV really did it here
Comment by Nick — September 3, 2009 @ 3:41 am