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.
- 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
the NTP server list.
The servers are by Internet Multifeed Co., and connected to their
IX service JPNAP. It would be a good NTP server for machines in Japan.
See also http://www.jst.mfeed.ad.jp/ for more details (Japanese only).
Reviewed by: nork
with EBUSY and a cdrom is not mounted at /cdrom, sysinstall fails to
treat it as an error and thinks that the disk mounted ok. However, it
doesn't find a cdrom.inf file so it complains. Later when it tries to
unmount the disk due to a mediaClose() umount(2) returns an error, and it
never clears its internal mounted flag. The fix here is to properly
handle EBUSY as an error if there isn't a CD already mounted at /cdrom.
- Add a new CDROMInitQuiet variable that can be used to shut up the dialog
box about the mount(2) system call failing when trying to mount a CD-ROM.
This is used by the feature described below.
- When using a fixit CD, first try to see if we can mount the disc in the
drive now and use it as a fixit CD. If not, then prompt the user to
insert the disc and try again. If we do succeed on the first "silent"
probe then we don't ask the user to eject the disk after leaving fixit
mode.
- Add a simple file existence test to make sure that the disc that we mount
really is a livefs disc.
- Explicitly switch back to ttyv0 when using the standard console after
the fixit shell dies. Previously this behavior worked accidentally
because all the fixit modes popped up a dialog box which contained a
hidden switch to ttyv0.
MFC after: 1 day
disk. This is main reason why sysinstall presents SCSI CDROM to
available disks in Fdisk/Label menu. In addition, adding a blank
SCSI CDROM to the menu generates floating point exception in sparc64.
Disk_Names() just extracts sysctl "kern.disks". Why GEOM treats SCSI
CDROM as a disk is beyond me and that should be investigated.
For temporary workaround, ignore SCSI CDROM device.
PR: sparc64/72962
Tested by: R. Tyler Ballance < tyler AT tamu DOT edu>
MFC after: 1 week
This adds a safebelt that prevents users to mark more than
one "active" partitions, which will lead to a unbootable
machine, especially in multi-boot configurations.
PR: bin/71404
MFC After: 3 days
Approved by: murray (mentor)
VT6122 gigabit ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY.
The vge driver has been added to GENERIC for i386, pc98 and amd64,
but not to sparc or ia64 since I don't have the ability to test
it there. The vge(4) driver supports VLANs, checksum offload and
jumbo frames.
Also added the lge(4) and nge(4) drivers to GENERIC for i386 and
pc98 since I was in the neighborhood. There's no reason to leave them
out anymore.
concensus seems to be that is best left for doing post-install.
Discussed on: freebsd-current@
Tested with: make release
Approved by: re@
MFC after: 3 days
to get used to the fact that Perl is no longer part of the base system.
It is practically impossible to install any useful package and not get
Perl automatically pulled in as a dependency. So the typical user will
get their Perl.
This change greatly reduces the amount of manual labor in building the
miniinst.iso in release building.
contents of /usr/src/rescue. Until now, the files were shipped with
releases but sysinstall would ignore them (resulting in a non-buildable
source tree).
Sanity checked by: jhb
install of Postfix fails since Postfix 1 is picked from INDEX instead
of Postfix 2.
The problem is that the package_add function matches multiple Postfix
packages and then installs a "random" version (the last one found in
INDEX). This does not occur with a CD-ROM install since there is only
one Postfix package on the CD-ROM.
The correct solution to this would be to check the origin field from
INDEX instead of the package name, but due to the way sysinstall is
made that is not trivial, so instead work around the problem by
hard-coding the Postfix major and minor revision (for the current
stable version) to install directly into the package_add call.
PR: misc/65426
Reported by: Harold Kachelmyer <bugs@princessharold.net>
Approved by: trhodes
some confusion as to how large the EFI system partition should be,
but 100MB seems to be either the maximum, the minimum or the default
size, so make the EFI partition 100MB.
global variables. On ia64, save a pointer to the efi chunk as well.
o At the same time, change checkLabels() to define these globals instead
of having the caller of checkLabels() pass addresses to variables for
these. Change the two callers correspondingly.
o Spent a bit more time adjusting try_auto_label() to prepate for having
the EFI partition created on ia64.
o Remove efi_mountpoint(). The EFI chunk is now available without having
to iterate over the disks and chunks to find it every time we need it.
o On ia64, now that the root chunk is globally available, set the
vfs.root.mountfrom tunable in loader.conf. This avoids that one cannot
boot into FreeBSD after an install. The kernel cannot find the root
device without a little help...
of releases. The -DNOCRYPT build option still exists for anyone who
really wants to build non-cryptographic binaries, but the "crypto"
release distribution is now part of "base", and anyone installing from a
release will get cryptographic binaries.
Approved by: re (scottl), markm
Discussed on: freebsd-current, in late April 2004
o Remove the code that creates the boot directory on the EFI file
system after it has been mounted, as well as remove the code
that creates the symlink from /boot -> /efi/boot (*). As a result,
/boot will be extracted onto the root file system.
o Add a function efi_mountpoint() that returns the mount point of
the EFI file system or NULL if no EFI partition is created. This
function is used to both check whether there's an EFI file system
and to return what its mount point is.
o When there's no EFI file system, ask the user if this is what he
or she wants. Since we extract /boot onto the root file system,
we do not actually need an EFI file system for the installation to
work. Whether one wants to install without an EFI partition is
of course an entirely different question. We allow it...
o When we're done installing and need to fix up the various bits
and pieces, check if there's an EFI partition and if yes, move
/boot to /efi/boot and create a symlink /boot -> /efi/boot (*).
This is a much more reliable way to get /boot onto the EFI
partition than creating the symlink up front and hope its being
respected. It so happened that we never had the boot directory
end up on the EFI partition. We make the symlink relative.
(*) /efi is a place holder for the actual EFI mount point of course.
we'll actually create an EFI partition with a FAT file system instead
of an UFS file system. It also allows us to give a sensible default
mount point for EFI partitions so that people don't have to guess.
This also means that we can now remove new_efi_part(), which did the
same thing as new_part(), except it created a FAT file system. The
function wasn't called when the EFI partition was created from scratch
though, which was the problem. By passing the partition type to the
various functions, we can deal with EFI without having to duplicate
code.
that actually need it. This makes it easier for a platform porter to
find the files that may need tweaking to support whatever MD specific
partitioning is needed. It also helps to prevent that the libdisk API
gets exposed and/or used where it's not needed.
installation as far as most people are concerned but both 'Standard' and
'Select' begin with S and 'Select' is winning. This makes it so 'Select'
is not select-able using a keystroke but that is probably for the best
and the text on the screen adequately describes how to move back and forth
between 'Select' and 'Exit'.
Adapted from work by: josef@
PR: i386/37999
MFC after: 1 week
- Don't look for partitions inside a FreeBSD chunk on ia64 when mounting
the filesystems just before the chroot and install.
- Write entries out to /etc/fstab for filesystems that aren't inside a
FreeBSD chunk, but are a top-level chunk under the disk.
addresses. For arch's with 64-bit longs, this is a nop, but for i386 this
allows sysinstall to properly handle disks and filesystems > 1 TB.
Changes from the original patch include:
- Use d_addr_t rather than inventing a blkcnt type based on int64_t.
- Use strtoimax() rather than strtoull() to parse d_addr_t's from config
files.
- Use intmax_t casts and %jd rather than %llu to printf d_addr_t values.
Tested on: i386
Tested by: kuriyama
Submitted by: julian
MFC after: 1 month
/libexec to /mnt2/libexec, and execute /mnt2/rescue/ldconfig to add
the /mnt2/lib and /mnt2/usr/lib library directories. Thanks to John Baldwin
for working to track this down.
Submitted by: jhb
(Lite Edition) respectively. These "lite" packages are streamlined to
provide users with the core essentials for each desktop and to fit on the
release disc 1.
Approved by: re (scottl)
permitting the administrator to select a securelevel top operate
at. Include a helpfile summarizing some of the information from
init(8). This allows for explicit configuration of securelevels,
which was previously implicit in Security Profile selection.
Currently, there are no checkboxes for the active securelevel,
because sysinstall's facilities for deriving "current settings"
from rc.conf may use only one variable, not two, and I opted for
the simplest approach at this point.
Approved by: re (scottl)
selection is used to drive two configuration parameters:
(1) Default enable/disable for sshd
(2) Default enable/disable for securelevels
Replace this with an explicit choice to enable/disable sshd. A
follow-up commit will add a configuration option to the Security
post-install configuration menu to set the securelevel in rc.conf
explicitly. This should reduce the level of foot-shooting associated
with accidental enabling of securelevels, make the nature and
implications of the securelevel configuration options more explicit,
as well as make the choice to enable/disable sshd more explicit.
Approved by: re (scottl)
a partition size on ia64. It's not true.
o Ask for a mountpoint for EFI partitions as well and check that it
isn't "/".
o On ia64 we may need to add EFI partitions. Make sure we pass the
right arguments to Create_Chunk_DWIM() in that case.
to better deal with the fact that we need an EFI partition and
that we need to have a mountpoint for it.
o When creating a new partition, add EFI to the list of types
the user can select from. This makes it easy to create an EFI.
o Do not include wizard.c on ia64.
o The user cannot create a partition on ia64 that's a multiple of
the cylinder size. We don't have a notion of cyclinders.
o Also allow swap and filesystem partitions outside a freebsd slice.
This is typically the case for GPT.
o Allow chunks of type "whole" to be displayed at the top. This is
to allow a GPT disk to be labeled. We need a slice out of which we
can make partitions, but a GPT disk doesn't have slices. For GPT
disks a chunk of type "whole" can then be used as a placeholder.
