FreeBSD I18N Install Floppy

About FreeBSD I18N Install Floppy

We have extended Japanese FreeBSD install floppy to support the other languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian). This floppy originally has been developed with the release of FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE. When 2.2-RELEASE version was released, we refined the code for multilingualization of it to easily integrated it with the English version.

This FreeBSD install floppy consists of the sysinstall utility (an installer for FreeBSD) modified by Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> to internalize kon utility. Kon was the utility to display Kanji characters (and other Asian characters) on PC console, and it has been ported from Linux to NetBSD and then to FreeBSD. Also the kon utility inported into this floppy contains improvements by Ikuo Nakagawa <ikuo@isl.intec.co.jp>.

We are using the improved version of libncurses library for user interface. This library is based on modified version for FreeBSD(98) (FreeBSD for Japanese PC-98 series) developed by Nobuyuki Koganemaru <kogane@koganemaru.co.jp>. Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> has modified the libdialog library for dialog interface.

• Driver Floppy Support
  • http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/driver-floppy/
• Future Works
  • Integrate multilingual patches to 5.0-CURRENT....

News

Added Portuguese (pt_BR) support. Almost all sysinstall messages and a part of help files have already been translated. (2001/06/12)
Thanks for Giovanni Picoli Tirloni <tirloni@din.uem.br> !!

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• FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE (2002/09/17)
  Japanese support only (Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Tranditional Chinese translation wanted).
  Older version (prior to version 20020917) has a serious bug related to softupdates. Please read this page if you've already installed FreeBSD with the older version.
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
  • Source Tarball (2.2MB)
• FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE (2002/07/14)
  Japanese support only (Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Tranditional Chinese translation wanted).
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
  • Source Tarball (2.2MB)
• FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE (2002/02/21)
  Japanese support only (Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Tranditional Chinese translation wanted).
  • boot_ja.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern_ja.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot_ja.flp (1.44MB)
  • Source Tarball (2.2MB)
• FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE (2001/11/12)
  Japanese support only (Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Tranditional Chinese translation wanted).
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
• FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (2001/06/12)
  Japanese, Korean and Portuguese support (Russian and Tranditional Chinese translation wanted).
  • boot_jkp.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern_jkp.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot_jkp.flp (1.44MB)
  • Source Tarball (2.1MB)
  • Translation Kit (850KB) [contains message catalog files, help files, and document files only]
• FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (2000/12/07)
  Added Traditional Chinese and Russian support (Only help files have been translated to Russian).
  • boot_cjkr.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern_cjkr.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot_cjkr.flp (1.44MB)
  • Source Tarball (1.9MB)
  • MD5 Checksums
• FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE (2000/10/21)
  The final release of 3.x-RELEASE. Laptop version and Desktop version has been merged into common files. These install floppies are include the Japanese and Korean messages. Please refer to PAO home page for Laptop/Note-PC. Master ftp site as ftp://daemon.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/PAO/flp/3.5.1-RELEASE/
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
  • paodist.tar (for Laptop only, based on PAO3-20001021.tar.gz)
  • MD5 Checksums
• FreeBSD 3.5-RELEASE (2000/07/12)
  Laptop version and Desktop version has been merged into common files. Please refer to PAO home page for Laptop/Note-PC. Master ftp site as ftp://daemon.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/PAO/flp/3.5-RELEASE/
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
  • paodist.tar (for Laptop only, based on PAO3-20000710.tar.gz)
  • MD5 Checksums
• FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE (2000/02/02)
  Laptop version and Desktop version has been merged into common files. Please refer to PAO home page for Laptop/Note-PC. Master ftp site as ftp://daemon.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/PAO/flp/3.4-RELEASE/
  • boot.flp (2.88MB)
  • kern.flp (1.44MB)
  • mfsroot.flp (1.44MB)
  • paodist.tar (for Laptop only, based on PAO3-20000130.tar.gz)
  • MD5 Checksums
• FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE
  • Japanese/English
    • Desktop Version (boot.flp, w/o PPP installation, 1999/01/03)
    • Laptop Version (boot-pao.flp, w/o NFS, PPP and SLIP installation, 1999/01/15)
      
  • Korean/English
    • Desktop Version (boot.flp, w/o PPP installation, 1999/01/20)
    • Laptop Version (boot-pao.flp, w/o NFS, PPP and SLIP installation, 1999/01/20)
      
• Source Distribution
  • FreeBSD 3.5-RELEASE
    • Translation Kit (2000/07/10)
    • CVSweb and CVSupping PAO Sources

Tatsumi Hosokawa
hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org