Re: (u)ral driver

2006-03-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Chris Rawnsley wrote: # cvsup /usr/shar/cvsup/DragonFly-cvs-supfile So then the source downloaded to /home/dcvs. I then got myself a copy of ral.diff.gz and extracted it to /tmp. # cd /home/dcvs/src/sys #patch -p0 /tmp/ral.diff The patch seemed to apply successfully (although I cannot scroll u

Re: Installer question

2006-03-13 Thread Tim Darby
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sun, March 12, 2006 9:46 am, Tim Darby wrote: I've been looking at the DF installer this weekend and was wondering what is the easiest way to create an unattended install of the OS? Ideally, I'd like to be able to boot a CD and return some time later to a complete

Re: Installer question

2006-03-13 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, March 13, 2006 10:03 pm, Tim Darby wrote: > Thanks! Looking at this file, it appears to be a collection of options > that affect the behavior and environment of the installer, which is a > good start but doesn't seem to address the whole picture unless I'm > missing something. In other w

make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-13 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because of the parallel processing, but there's no direct quantifier. I put together a

Assembly in DragonFly

2006-03-13 Thread Karthik Subramanian
Hi Folks, After installing DragonFly on a spare box at work, I was trying out asimple "Hello World" in assembly, and found that one needed to do alittle more than "as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o" to getit to work; here's what I did: 1. Wrote a "Hello World" in assembly: