From owner-freebsd-config Tue Jul 10 8:54: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDE837B401; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.143.76.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.76]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20448; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4B2538.6FAC0C40@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:54:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Package based configuration control References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <3B4A1E70.18A550B7@iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > > While "going on forever" would actually be required in order > to fix things, I'm more interested in why you think that > sysintall needs "to go" - or did I misunderstand your previous > post? Do you think that there are simply so many problems > with sysinstall that it's not worth fixing? I guess I was > looking at the basic menu-driven layout and wondering > what you saw wrong with that. Well, for one thing, the packages menu puts up the wrong text field from the packages as the detailed description; for another, there are the navigation issues that Eric Melville is currently working on (space vs. tab vs. return). In general, I also think that the menus are too deep, and are not organized orthogonally (there should be as little difference as possible between the appearance of ports vs. packages vs. base system components, when it comes to installing them. It's also annoying that packages have to have their category headers compiled into the program as static strings, or they show up as two-headed stepchildren. But the main problem I have is that there are some things which are tracked, and some things which aren't; it should be the case that everything is tracked. A surprising number of people have expressed an interest in working on a package-based install in private email, so it's probably an idea whose time has come. We should probably resurrect the -config mailing list for this purpose. I've Cc:'ed that list on this response. If anyone wants to join the list, send a message to majordomo@freebsd.org With the body: subscribe freebsd-config@freebsd.org -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-config Tue Jul 10 13:36: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from prairieinet.net (dsmmail.prairieinet.net [63.239.190.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 597E037B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:36:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgoodson@p-inet.net) Received: (qmail 28694 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 20:35:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duroc.p-inet.com) ([63.239.190.7]) (envelope-sender ) by dsmmail.prairieinet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jul 2001 20:35:59 -0000 Received: by duroc.p-inet.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:30:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3239C74599195C4D911085B3C2AF66EE20AB9C@duroc.p-inet.com> From: Rich Goodson To: "'freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: IPv6 prompt in 4.2 installer Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:30:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having problems getting the IPv6 prompt "Would you like to try IPv6 configuration of the interface? [YES] [NO]" to not come up when booting from my custom boot disks. I have about 50 servers that are going to have basically the same 4.2-release configuration. I'd like to be able to simply swap floppies and then have the rest of the install be automatic. everything else currently works except for this. here is part of my mfsroot install.cfg file. debug=NO nonInteractive=YES noWarn=YES tryRTSOL=NO tryDHCP=YES ... [other stuff about disks and nfs and packages deleted] the tryRTSOL=NO was the closest thing I could find while looking through the source code in /usr/src/release/sysinstall. I assume this is incorrect, as it still comes up with the IPv6 prompt during the boot/install. I assumed this was the correct variable due to following lines of code in tcpip.c and sysinstall.h tcpip.c: ((!variable_cmp(VAR_TRY_RTSOL, "NO")) && (!msgNoYes("Do you want to try IPv6 configuration of the interface?")))) { ((!variable_cmp(VAR_TRY_DHCP, "NO")) && (!msgNoYes("Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the interface?")))) { sysinstall.h: #define VAR_TRY_DHCP "tryDHCP" #define VAR_TRY_RTSOL "tryRTSOL" since tryDHCP=YES works without prompting, I thought tryRTSOL=NO would also work without prompting, but apparently I was incorrect. is there any way I can get through this install without the try IPv6 prompt? thanks, -rich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message