Hello DragonFly!

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simoncpu@dragonsentinel:~> uname -a
DragonFly dragonsentinel.experiments.simoncpu.com 1.10.1-RELEASE DragonFly 1.10.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 20 17:42:05 PDT 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

I've successfully installed DragonFly on Soekris net4801. Installation was very simple.

Configuring the box is not much different from FreeBSD. The only problem that I've encountered is that DragonFly stops and asks me where /boot/loader is, if I specify -Dh at /boot.config. Weird. The boot menu doesn't even show up in the serial console. Everything works fine if I just specify -h.

Should I experiment on using DragonFlyBSD?

My Soekris net4801 box, which acts as my Ethernet switch by bridging all of its ports, is experiencing intermittent slowdown, especially under heavy load. This has occurred after replacing its OS from FreeBSD 6.2 to FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT, March snapshot. I think it's because it had some critical bugs last March (I was too lazy to download a September snapshot) and because WITNESS, INVARIANTS, and other debugging options have been enabled in the kernel. Instead of rebuilding the kernel, I'm thinking of using DragonFlyBSD instead. I want to experiment. I'll do this on Saturday so as not to interfere with my work.