is, consistently call it the boot manager, and switch the order the
options are presented so no boot manager is first in the list (and
hence more or less the default).
This area will probably be rototilled more before 8.0 comes out.
selected from the "dists" are all on the current volume. Looks like
xorg won't fit on disc1 for 6.4-REL. Iterate through media volumes
for packages that wind up being selected from the dists section in
addition to the ones that get selected from the packages menu.
MFC after: 2 days
keymap. You can learn some interesting things in the PR database!
PR: conf/124411
Submitted by: Doctor Modiford <freebsd -at- modiford.com>
MFC after: 3 days
the user selected and then recursively installing their dependencies, finally
installing the ones the user selected after the recursion unwinds. Since
users often select "high-level" packages that are on a higher numbered
disc for the multi-volume release CDROMS this resulted in excessive disc
swapping while installing things like kde, gnome, etc.
Cut down on disc swapping by iterating through the disc volumes one at a
time if we notice the package set is on multiple volumes. If a package
is on a higher volume don't install it yet, but still "process it" so we
get its dependencies installed. Because of the way the package sets for
releases get assembled we're guaranteed dependencies will be on the same
volume or lower.
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
tape have been broken for quite a while, and I'll be removing the rest
of sysinstall's knowledge of tapes shortly. I'm doing this piece now
because I want to switch from gnu's cpio to bsdcpio being integrated
into the installation environment and bsdcpio doesn't seem to handle
block sizes at all.
Both sysinstall and sade still seem to use the TIOCGSIZE ioctl to obtain
the terminal dimensions. We'd better use TIOCGWINSZ to do this. The
TIOCGWINSZ interface is preferred, because it also allows sizes in pixels
to be passed to the application (though this is not used here).
Approved by: philip (mentor)
I tested this as well as the submitter and couldn't resolve this either,
since I dont want to "announce" dead mirrors, I'll remove it from the
list.
PR: 122567
Submitted by: vs
Approved by: imp (mentor, implicit for trivial changes)
MFC after: 1 week
probably the right thing to do a while ago but xorg has progressed
to the point that for novice users (who are the ones expected to think
installing X11 during an install...) it's best to just install the
whole x11/xorg metaport for them. This removes the X11 sub-menus
and sets it up so you just select whether or not you want X11. While
here garbage collect an X11 configuration menu I missed removing when
I removed support for attempting xorg configuration from inside sysinstall
a while ago.
Discussed with: rwatson, kris
No objection from: re
Release build tested by: rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
we would leak a saved screen for every other package we tried to install
that listed perl as one of its dependencies. When installing things
like gnome and kde that wound up being a LOT of leaked memory.
Insta-MFC request coming so this can be tested as part of 6.3-RC2...
Testing help from: kris
too small for today's standards. While loading packages sysinstall
blows past this by a LOT but I think (hope...) that's caused by other
bugs. I'll look more into why sysinstall's memory use has gotten so
out of control as it loads packages but independent of that there really
is no reason to leave the limits on datasize and stacksize in place. And
they can cause problems for some of the things "modern packages" might
be doing via pkg_add which gets run by sysinstall and would inherit the
limits.
Another insta-MFC probably coming, this is holding up 6.3-RC2. Sysinstall's
memory use is so out of control it blows past the current limit before it
finishes loading either of the meta-packages kde or gnome...
"build dependencies" field is 5,108 characters which overflows the
length of the junk buffer by a teeny bit. This whole section needs
much more error checking but for now just completely ignore stuff
we have no interest in instead of copying it to someplace we don't
use in the process.
Insta-MFC probably coming since this is holding up 7.0-RC1...
xorg-server doesn't include any video drivers so install xorg-drivers as
well. And if font-alias isn't installed the X server won't start,
complaining it can't find the font "fixed".
Insta-MFC coming, this was tested with a RELENG_6_3 release build and
the necessary packages as part of the first round of testing for 6.3-RC2.
caused a segfault. It turns out that in pre-7.0 systems if you do
getenv("amd_enable=YES") it will return the setting of the environment
variable "amd_enable" but now it returns NULL. I think I found the
places where sysinstall was potentially relying on that old behavior.
Fix is to make a copy of the string to be used for the getenv(3) call,
look for a '=' character in it, and replace it with '\0' if one is
found. Stuck to sysinstall's typical coding standards despite urges
to do otherwise.
PR: 117642
MFC after: 2 days
setenv(3) by tracking the size of the memory allocated instead of using
strlen() on the current value.
Convert all calls to POSIX from historic BSD API:
- unsetenv returns an int.
- putenv takes a char * instead of const char *.
- putenv no longer makes a copy of the input string.
- errno is set appropriately for POSIX. Exceptions involve bad environ
variable and internal initialization code. These both set errno to
EFAULT.
Several patches to base utilities to handle the POSIX changes from
Andrey Chernov's previous commit. A few I re-wrote to use setenv()
instead of putenv().
New regression module for tools/regression/environ to test these
functions. It also can be used to test the performance.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 700050 due to API change.
PR: kern/99826
Approved by: wes
Approved by: re (kensmith)
id used by sysinstall when enabling anonymous FTP.
Change the default group used by sysinstall for setting up anonymous FTP
from operator to ftp; there is no reason to use operator and there are
potential security issues when doing so.
PR: 93284
Approved by: ru (mentor)
Reviewed by: simon
Not because I admit they are technically wrong and not because of bug
reports (I receive nothing). But because I surprisingly meets so
strong opposition and resistance so lost any desire to continue that.
Anyone who interested in POSIX can dig out what changes and how
through cvs diffs.
complete the boot and enter into sysinstall, and only then inserts
a CD into the CDROM drive and tries to select that as the install
media the first call to mount(2) generates EIO but the second call
to mount(2) will succeed. This was 100% reproducible on 6.2-RELEASE,
RELENG_6, and HEAD. If the user inserts the disc into the CDROM
while the machine is booting off the floppies the first call to mount(2)
succeeds with no problems. The problem was originally reported in
PR #56952 against 5.1-CURRENT so it's been there for a while now.
PR: bin/56952
MFC after: 2 weeks
/boot/kernel can fail. Try to remove /boot/kernel.prev and cope the
best we can if that fails.
PR: bin/106376
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru
Approved by: ru
MFC after: 2 weeks
default distribution (user) will be installed, however, no kernel
will be installed. Fix this by installing a sensible default kernel,
SMP/GENERIC, depending on WITH_SMP and number of CPUS found.
Reviewed by: jhb
fails, suggest setting kern.geom.debugflags to 16.
PR: bin/94409
Submitted by: Markus Oestreicher <m punkt oe at x dash trader dot de>
MFC after: 10 days
termed ERI and GEM rather than GMAC.
- Bring the description of le(4) in line with the current le(4); it
was still refering to the old i386 ISA-only le(4) which was nuked
along with ISA_COMPAT while HEAD was FreeBSD 5.
- Add an entry for hme(4).
- Remove the obsolete entry for lnc(4).
MFC after: 1 day
localhost.domain so that naive users of gethost* think 1:: and 127.0.0.1
are "localhost" which is what the user expects. This also matches the
sample hosts file in src/etc/hosts.
see which release you are installing (really which FreeBSD version the
installer is running, but that shouldn't matter in all normal cases).
PR: bin/100309
Submitted by: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> (original version)
Idea from: FreeBSD ideas page
MFC after: 1 week
I considered leaving /boot/kernel out of the chflags noschg line, but I
seem to remember that there was a period where /boot/kernel was schg, so
have left it in for safety's sake.
Approved by: jhb
MFC after: 1 month
SRC_BASE package (src/[A-Z]*) as well as SRC_SYS (src/sys/*). This
allows users who only install the kernel source code to use the
modern "make buildkernel" approach.
Discussed with: re (scottl, kensmith)
MFC after: 3 days
greater than the size we autosized. Without this fix, systems with
drives under 10GB can end up with very small /usr partitions...
Broken since: January 2002
Tripped over by: simon
at runtime and to support distributing additional kernels:
o remove kernel from the base tarball
o add new kernel tarballs
o build + package both SMP and GENERIC kernels when an <arch>/conf/SMP
config file is present
o add sysinstall support for multiple kernels
o update sysinstall to probe for the number of cpus on a system
and auto-select smp/up kernel accordingly
o add a post-kernels install hook to fixup /boot/kernel
o add -ldevinfo to boot crunch for sysinstall's cpu probing logic
Notes:
1. On HEAD this code is not currently used because GENERIC kernels
include SMP. This work is mainly intended for RELENG_6 where the
GENERIC kernel is UP. If HEAD changes to match then just enable
WITH_SMP in sysinstall/Makefile.
2. The cpu probing support is done with acpi and MPTable; this means
some systems will require work for auto-detection to work.
3. The handling of /boot/kernel may need to be revisited; for now
we rename one kernel at the last moment (SMP if installed, otherwise
GENERIC). There are other, possibly better, approaches.
Lots of help from ru, emaste, scottl, and jhb.
this now compiles on i386 with WARNS?= 3. Most of the fixes included
adding missing 'static' keywords to internal functions, using fully-defined
terminators in statically defined arrays of structs, and various
signed vs unsigned mismatches. Also G/C'd unused configSecurity()
function.
by syscons.
- If we are running as init, popup the country menu before the main menu.
If a non-default country is chosen, then a second menu is brought up
to let the user choose a keymap. By default the default keymap for
the country that was selected is highlighted. If the user chooses the
default country, then the default keymap is just assumed and the user
is not presented with the keymap menu. Currently the default country
is set to "United States" except for PC98 which assumes "Japan".
PR: bin/93853
Submitted by: Seth Kingsley sethk at magnesium dot net
MFC after: 3 days
completely noop.
- Geometry sanitization for non-interactive mode is moved to correct place.
Reported by: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin at citrin dot ru>
Pointyhat: me
For example, you can dynamically generate and load configuration file
depending on the hardware configuration with the following template:
mediaSetCDROM
mediaOpen
command='/dist/rescue/sh /dist/scripts/install.sh'
system
mediaClose
configFile=/tmp/generated.cfg
loadConfig
Now we have full access to files on the media before installation begins.
possible for information to be copied from the group file to the group
file in the FTP area. This patch based on a patch from Zak Johnson
<zakj at nox dot cx>.
PR: bin/25851
Submitted by: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox punkt placo period com>
Approved by: jhb (proxy mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
MFC to: RELENG_5, RELENG_6
Security: Prevents possible group information leakage
PR: bin/90057
Submitted by: Charlie M. McDonald <BoredOutkast at yahoo punkt com>
Approved by: jhb (mentor by proxy)
MFC to: RELENG_5, RELENG_6
MFC After: 3 days
instance, the dreaded shared memory problem in PostgreSQL coming back to
haunt you after a binary update.
PR: 89817
Submitted by: edwin
MFC after: 2 days
- Use pool.ntp.org servers where possible, thanks to
Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac dot com> .
- Update list of Swedish NTP servers, thanks to
Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-current at shapeshifter dot se> .
PR: bin/75479
MFC after: 1 day
1. Provide larger /, /var, and /tmp partitions (the last increase was
in 2001, and we now have both larger hard drives and more space-hungry
software.)
2. If there is enough space available, allocate extra space to /var
sufficient to store a crash dump.
On systems where harddrivesize > 3 * RAMsize + 10GB, the default sizes
will now be as follows:
swap RAMsize * 2
/ 512 MB
/tmp 512 MB
/var 1024 MB + RAMsize
/usr the rest (8GB or more)
On systems where harddrivesize > RAMsize / 8 + 2 GB, the default sizes
will be in the following ranges, with space allocated proportionally:
swap RAMsize / 8 -- RAMsize * 2
/ 256 MB -- 512 MB
/tmp 128 MB -- 512 MB
/var 128 MB -- 1024 MB
/usr 1536 MB -- 8192 MB
On systems with even less disk space, the existing behaviour is not
changed.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 1 day
(or once people stop arguing about colours of paint)
it is running during installations. The vsystem() function does get
used after this happens (e.g. if you manually configure the network
interface and ask it to enable the interface) so it needs to be a
little smarter about whether it uses /stand/sh or /bin/sh.
MFC after: 3 days
