option for installing distributions and/or packages to somewhere other than /,
say for a case where you're installing to an external disk on some other
machine's behalf. More miscellaneous fixes to various problems I stumbled
across while adding this stuff.
comprehensive re-write later.
* Ruthlessly condense questions so they fit on a single line (the
TOC is now actually readable in lynx!). In one or two cases, this
has meant splitting up questions or incorporating part of the old
question into the answer.
* Make it clear that the question about disklabel'ing is actually
about adding a second hard disk, provide a _much_ simpler answer and
move it out of the installation section.
* Don't imply that the AHA2920 is supported (I suspect we will get a
lot of queries about this)
* Reword the non-serious questions to hint that the answer may not be
particularly informative...
* Correct typos and grammar, remove US-centric colloquialisms :-)
and many more.
control program to control the facility of the bootblocks
to fetch a default bootstring from a fixed location on the disk.
See the manpage for more info.
type identification code out of machdep.c and into a new file of its
own. Hopefully other grot can be moved out of machdep.c as well
(by other people) into more descriptively-named files.
performance to LRU or worse when RSS limiting takes effect. Also,
make an end condition in the active queue scan more efficient in the
case where pages are removed from the active queue as a side effect
of a pmap operation.
it with the CIRCLEQ macros. This simplifies the code a little, makes
it somewhat easier to read, and may be a little faster. (Actually I think
the performace is about the same.)
Also, in the non DB_CACHE case, save copies of data returned from
the database library in a static buffer, just in case we decide to use
it after the database has been closed. Technically, the memory that the
data pointers refer to belongs to the DB package and we can't count on
it being there after the database has been closed -- the DB package
frees its buffers. (With DB_CACHE #defined the databases are held
open so the buffers remain valid.) I don't think any of the utilities
that use the dblookup module have had any problems with this yet, but
there's no sense in taking any chances.
Add code to the boot blocks to allow the user to place default boot strings
on block 1 of the disk (2nd block), should the correct magic numbers be present.
If the correct options are used it will 'delete' the name used from block1,
thereby assuring that if the boot fails it won't be stuck in an infinite loop.
the boot strings are set by the utility "nextboot"
(not yet checked in, but being tested.)
By default these changes should have no effect on existing installations
and if compiled without the NAMEBLOCK option should be essentially identical
to the old ones.
based on the HD64570 chip. Both the 1 and 2 port cards is supported.
Line speeds of up to 2Mbps is possible. At this speed about 95% of the
bandwidth is usable with 486DX processors.
The standard FreeBSD sppp code is used for the link level layer. The
default protocol used is PPP. The Cisco HDLC protocol can be used by
adding "link2" to the ifconfig line in /etc/sysconfig or where ever
ifconfig is run.
At the moment only the X.21 interface is tested. The others may need
tweaks to the clock selection code.
Add a few strategic screen clears.
Do a lot less wasted screen I/O in restoring screen contents that don't need
restoring.
Use tar instead of cp to back up /etc in installUpdate.
Don't panic when upgrade shell exits.
to 1K to avoid waiting too long between 2 progress reports in the case of a
slow transfer.
Move the signal()/setitimer() code just before the read loop because the
ftpio library set and reset the timer internally.
