Re: Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-26 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Dear All Thanks very much for all these pointers. I shall certainly be swotting up. I'm taking installing and using DragonFly BSD as an excuse to learn about how the operating system works. I've been using linux for nearly 15 years but never delved very deep into it; then for the last few ye

Re: Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-26 Thread Radosław Szymczyszyn
The best source of info on what happens during boot0, boot2 and kernel initialization phases I found is the FreeBSD Architecture Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/boot.html It's still quite accurate regarding the pc32 platform of DFly, though certain details have changed.

Re: Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Turner
On 04/20/13 00:23, Edward M wrote: On 4/19/2013 12:43 AM, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: on what goes on during the dragonflybsd boot? DragonflyBSD booting process from the handbook. hope this helps:-) http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/Booting/ As far as the init scripts

Re: Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-19 Thread Edward M
On 4/19/2013 12:43 AM, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: on what goes on during the dragonflybsd boot? DragonflyBSD booting process from the handbook. hope this helps:-) http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/Booting/

Re: Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-19 Thread Justin Sherrill
The man pages for 'boot' and 'hier' may be useful to you. There's probably more man pages that may be useful; I don't know a good place online where you can idly browse them, though. Also, books like "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System", which can be read here: http://

Wanted: tutorial on dragonflybsd boot process

2013-04-19 Thread Ivan Uemlianin
Dear All Can anyone recommend a tutorial --- even a printed book! --- on what goes on during the dragonflybsd boot? Actually would prefer printed book. How similar is it to other BSDs? One of the things I'd like to do with installing and using dragonflybsd, is learn about what the/an oper