device in non-interactive mode.
If there are no USB devices, sysinstall gives an error messages, and if there
is >1, it'll ask which one is to be used. This change allows a non-interactive
install from USB media to succeed without any user interaction if there is
exactly one USB disk device in the system it can use.
Submitted by: Daniel O'Connor < doconnorat gsoft dot com dot au >
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: re (rwatson)
"SATA disk device" reflects the current state of /dev/ada*; this may be
changed in the future if other drive types start appearing as /dev/ada*.
Submitted by: randi
Details about what disks can appear as /dev/ada* supplied by: scottl
Approved by: re (rwatson)
to 'Expert Mode', to make it less confusing to new users, to whom
a 'wizard' is a set of simple dialogs with the 'next >>>' button.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
both the disk partitioning screen (the 'F' key) and via install.cfg (the
VAR_DEDICATED_DISK option). This functionality is currently broken in 8.x
due to libdisk and geom generating different partition names; this commit
merely acts to help steer users away from the breakage.
Submitted by: randi
Approved by: re (kensmith)
While doing so, improve style and reword some comments.
This should not result in any functional changes, but the fixit_livefs_common
function will be used by future code.
Submitted by: randi
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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)
A fresh install of a current 8.0 snapshot uses 156MB with a single kernel
and having the filesystem too small prevented the system from booting.
Reviewed by: marcel
MFC after: 1 week
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.
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.
