'All' and 'Minimal'. Update the keys for Minimal and Custom to avoid the
conflict.
PR: bin/153809
Submitted by: Janne Snabb <snabb at epipe.com>
MFC after: 3 days
make it more relevant to modern systems: for example users will be
familiar with the MBR but possibly less so with MS-DOS.
After installation has finished don't return to the main menu but exit.
a lib32 distribution, and that the GENERIC kernel is named GENERIC64.
More modifications will be required later for installations from ftp due
to the shared platform name with 32-bit powerpc, but this is enough for
snapshot CDs to work.
Reviewed by: brucec
and broken for a number of years. freebsd-update now provides a reasonable
way to handle upgrades, so keeping this functionality in sysinstall only
serves to mislead users.
Approved by: cperciva (mentor)
offer to install an SMP kernel. The way this worked was: on supported
platforms, code to read ACPI tables and BIOS MP tables was compiled into
sysinstall, and if an SMP kernel config was present in the source tree when
sysinstall was built, code that called it was also compiled. Since we
haven't had SMP kernel configs in years, the latter was never compiled and
the former never ran.
This only removes dead and unreachable code; it does *not* remove the NCpus
variable, nor the code that sets it to 1, nor the code that asks the user to
select a kernel from a list.
Discussed with: re@, randi@ and others
FreeBSD docset during 'make release' this will speed up release
builds;
- sysinstall(8) has also been updated to use these packages with a new
menu allowing people to choose what localized doc to install;
- mention in UPDATING that docs from the FreeBSD Documentation project
are now installed in /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd instead of
/usr/share/doc.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
This covers the common case of unsliced USB drives, and makes it possible to
select them as installation source media.
PR: 61152, 115197, 135016
Submitted by: randi
MFC after: 1 month
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.
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
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.
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
