BSD Real Quick Newsletter
Installing BSD on IBM Netvista S40 - Part 1: FreeBSD
Installation
April 06, 2006
We present several ways of installing BSD on the IBM
Netvista S40, a
so-called legacy free computer. Difficulties arise because
the machine has
no standard AT keyboard controller, and the subroutines
controlling gate
A20 and the keyboard create inappropriate results. We
discuss replacement
bootstrap code, which more carefully deals with the A20
issue. Some simple
modifications to the FreeBSD kernel code are considered too.
A manual
method for preparing a bootable installation CD, suitable
for both
Netvista and all standard configurations, is examined.
Installations of
DragonFly, NetBSD, OpenBSD and OS/2 are also discussed.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5676
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Quality Assurance Lesson's Learned
April 06, 2006
Quite some time ago, at around the times of g4u 1.14/1.15
(see the g4u
history), I came to the decision that just typing
"make" is nice for
releasing simple software, but with increasing complexity,
some more
formal testing before release is nice to have to find those
trivial errors
that DO sneak in. As a result, I fired my previous quality
assurance
department and made up my own g4u release plan, which is
roughly: "RUN
THIS LIST OF TEST BEFORE THE RELEASE".
Simple, eh? It saved my butt a few times since then.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5679
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Ghost 4 Unix 2.2Beta Released
April 06, 2006
After more than a year of distraction and work in the
background, I'm
happy to announce a beta release of the upcoming g4u 2.2
release. The most
important changes are not user-visible but in the build
process, but as a
result of this, the 2.88MB size restriction is gone and now
only the
machine's RAM is the limit, allowing me to add a lot
of drivers
again.
You can find all the details in the history section of the
g4u
webpage
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5678
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OpenBSD Developer Blog: niallo: USB device driver hacking
April 06, 2006
The other week, David Cathcart gave me a supposed ural(4)
device (CNet
CWD-854) he had bought. While listed as supported in the
manual page, this
device would not attach properly. Let me explain a little
more how USB
devices are detected and the correct driver attached.
Of course, we all know how manufacturers love to change the
chipsets
internally without changing the product name - which leads
to a ton of
confusion for consumers who are trying to buy something that
is going to
work. At first I thought it might be a simple matter of
adding some new
device IDs to make the driver attach to it.
LINK: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2006
0406233608
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Apple Introduces Boot Camp
April 05, 2006
CUPERTINO, California—April 5, 2006—Apple(r) today
introduced Boot Camp,
public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run
Windows XP.
Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows
users with a
Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP
on an
Intel-based Mac(r), and once installation is complete, users
can restart
their computer to run either Mac OS(r) X or Windows XP. Boot
Camp will be a
feature in "Leopard," Apple's next major
release of Mac OS X, that will be
previewed at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in
August.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5675
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