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How you can help to port debian-installer on GNU/kFreeBSD

If you'd like to help porting debian-installer (d-i) on GNU/kFreeBSD, here you can find some tasks to work on.

Public development channels: #debian-boot and #debian-kbsd on irc.debian.org

Please consider that the progress report of week 8 of the project "d-i support for GNU/kFreeBSD" is a bit outdated, as you can read from the other emails in its thread.
I prepared an updated mini.iso to let you test its current status (note that syslogd is working).

If you'd like to hack on d-i itself, please read how to build d-i monolithic mini.iso on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

[DONE] Create a udeb for freebsd-net-tools

This work is needed because of being the short term solution to network configuration in the kfreebsd d-i port.

Port BusyBox "ip" and "route" applets on GNU/kFreeBSD

This work is needed because of being the long term solution to network configuration in the kfreebsd d-i port.
You can work on this hacking only the deb package, i.e. no need for building d-i.
Please read how to build BusyBox package on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

Port libparted1.8-udeb on GNU/kFreeBSD

This work should be needed for disk partitioning.
Perhaps the patches I wrote weeks ago are useful.


Update 20090722:
Development is very fast these days, so it makes no sense to update the blog to keep trak of the progress.
The best way to help at the moment is to "port libparted1.8-udeb on GNU/kFreeBSD".