installfest statuses

[Assaf Rutenberg]

Sorry for not responding sooner, my freebsd installation is progressing nicely and my command line skills are getting a good workout. I will upload my dmesgs this week. By my laptop model is an Asus ux32vd. Thanks again to George for your patience and guidance. The installment was immensely helpful. 

Assaf

On January 27, 2014 11:15:10 PM EST, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
>No one from the installfests posted anything yet, so I thought I'd take
>it upon myself to post...
>
>First of all, we have *never* been big with installfests.  There never
>really seemed to be a need, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>If those who don't need installfests don't organize them, those who
>need
>them can't come :)
>
>We should change that.  People might be running BSD on servers, but
>putting it on a laptop, configuring wireless cards and X seem to be
>completely different hurdles.  And with the advent of UEFI and netbooks
>that are so Windows-centric, there is certainly a case to start having
>installfests.
>
>We had one session last week.  One laptop was a Thinkpad X120e, and I
>don't remember offhand the model of the other, but I believe it was an
>Asus.
>
>From experience, even with a hacked BIOS, FreeBSD 8.x and 9.x installs
>but doesn't boot the x120e.  Instead of waging that battle and jumping
>into what is likely a gpt-related issue again, we went with an OpenBSD
>snapshot that was recent, which not only builds quickly and cleanly,
>but
>also hibernates and resumes nicely.
>
>The Asus also installed OpenBSD fine.  FreeBSD 9.1/amd64 installed but
>also didn't boot.  The participant with that laptop should post the
>model/make so we can look at more.
>
>Tonight we dealt with an Asus S400C.  This laptop is six months or so
>old, and a full UEFI nightmare.  It takes a bunch of reboots and power
>downs to deal with UEFI and BIOS settings.  That took a good hour of
>tinkering to get things to recognize the USB with the install media,
>and
>a few more reboots to get it to boot back from the disks.  If this is
>the future of laptops, then the future is grim.
>
>(yes, I'm aware of the FreeBSD Foundation's grant for dealing with
>UEFI,
>but don't forget it's an ugly road we're all being forced down. . .)
>
>After finally getting a recent OpenBSD snapshot to boot on the Asus
>S400C, *no* physical network devices were listed in ifconfig.  The
>wired
>is an Attansic AR8161, and the wireless is Atheros AR9485, and were
>recognized out of the message log.
>
>It is useful to have multiple install medias on hand, plus a wired
>switch.  This should include the stable and most current version of the
>particular BSD in question.  And I need to figure out how to install
>OpenBSD firmware blobs manually :)
>
>We've generally thought of doing installfests on more esoteric
>hardware,
>from the newer ARM SoC systems and beyond.  But clearly, basic x86
>hardware has a relevance for installfests when it comes to a lot of
>consumer-geared laptops today.
>
>On that note, I'm hoping the participants upload their dmesgs to
>dmesgd,
>and we can deal with any further configuration issues they may have.
>
>And we should look at planning more installfests.  Maybe even doing a
>show of hands at each meeting to decide whether to have one that month,
>and to sort out what the hardware targets are.
>
>g
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