Yesterday I threw the FreeBSD 10.1 image onto my PandaBoard to finally put it to good use as a small home server.
After installation, I tried to work with packages since compiling ports on this thing didn't seem very alluring. But pkg can't find any precompiled packages. Someone recommended chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages, but that seems to be 11-CURRENT only.
So I tried to install a few things via ports. It took forever, but seemed to work. Mostly. I can't install the cbsd jail management utilities, so I'm staying with the outdated ezjail at the moment. (BTW: is the handbook ever going to be updated to the jail.conf mechanism? It still mentions jail_foo_bar variables in rc.conf, and all my 10.x machines tell me this is outdated?!). svn wouldn't compile either, since "An appropriate version of serf could not be found" although it had built it just beforehand.
Right now I'm fetching /usr/src with svnlite to build a base jail with ezjail. I have to build it myself since there are apparently no tgz files for ezjail to fetch. The SVN connection breaks off every now an then with a "Server unexpectedly closed the connection" or a "The server sent a truncated HTTP response body" and I have to restart it. Quite annoying. So, why aren't there tgz or packages? Is anyone else having experience running FreeBSD on a PandaBoard?
Thank you.
After installation, I tried to work with packages since compiling ports on this thing didn't seem very alluring. But pkg can't find any precompiled packages. Someone recommended chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages, but that seems to be 11-CURRENT only.
So I tried to install a few things via ports. It took forever, but seemed to work. Mostly. I can't install the cbsd jail management utilities, so I'm staying with the outdated ezjail at the moment. (BTW: is the handbook ever going to be updated to the jail.conf mechanism? It still mentions jail_foo_bar variables in rc.conf, and all my 10.x machines tell me this is outdated?!). svn wouldn't compile either, since "An appropriate version of serf could not be found" although it had built it just beforehand.
Right now I'm fetching /usr/src with svnlite to build a base jail with ezjail. I have to build it myself since there are apparently no tgz files for ezjail to fetch. The SVN connection breaks off every now an then with a "Server unexpectedly closed the connection" or a "The server sent a truncated HTTP response body" and I have to restart it. Quite annoying. So, why aren't there tgz or packages? Is anyone else having experience running FreeBSD on a PandaBoard?
Thank you.