shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. It
contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present
reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow
the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. It
supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced
features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.
While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended
scripted installations. In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are
scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. As such, it
is useful in its own right.
This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of
PC-BSD. However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD
suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences
are discovered and corrected.
A text-based front-end is in the works. For the GUI-based front-end,
you can use the PC-BSD distribution.
Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the
BSDcan site:
http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html
The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for
the FreeBSD integration. Kris wrote the rest.
This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo.
http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall
Submitted by: kris@
Sponsored by: iX Systems
extract distributions once. If a distribution fails to fetch/extract
and the user doesn't want to retry, abort the installation.
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
a getty on the serial port so that it's possible to login when the system is
rebooted.
PR: bin/23098
Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at whistle.com>
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Modified submitter's original patch to reference why this is broken and what to do to work around the issue.
Submitted by: hubert@tournier.org
PR: bin/147572
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
* Don't strdup the name when calling deviceRegister because the string is
copied within new_device.
* Use a subtype of 165, not 3, when creating a slice in noninteractive
mode.
PR: bin/135333
PR: bin/66350
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
reading current frequency on every period. Instead do it only after
changing and periodically from time to time if somebody else change it.
Also dynamically decrease sampling frequency up to 4 times on inactivity,
o make cmd scoped to the whole do_rules function, since it really is
scoped to the whole fucnion. Making it static was the wrong way to
fix referencing it outside of the block in which it was declared
(and conforms to the style of the rest of the file).
o remove a couple of meaningless blank lines
o properly wrap one line.
"arp -an" when using a lot of aliases (on a single interface).
A better fix would include a better interface for if_indextoname than
getting the whole address list from the kernel just to find the one
index->name mapping.
Reported & analyzed by: Nick Rogers
MFC after: 3 days
- .Nd in section NAME is not optional
- .Ed was missing
- "indent" is not a flag, but a literal argument for -offset
- stop switching font sizes for acronyms
- use .Brq instead of rolling our own
Format for the include line in /etc/newsyslog.conf is:
<include> /etc/defaults/newsyslog.conf
Other notes of interest:
Globbing is supported in <include> statements.
Properly detect circular include loop dependencies.
Reviewed by: gad@
Approved by: wes@ (mentor)
MFC after: 2 months
the jail(8) command. [10:04]
Fix a one-NUL-byte buffer overflow in libopie. [10:05]
Correctly sanity-check a buffer length in nfs mount. [10:06]
Approved by: so (cperciva)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:04.jail
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:05.opie
Security: FreeBSD-SA-10:06.nfsclient
