Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:55:01 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD . Message-ID: <e71790db0807201855q34c1d857wd0cb5d6df62369a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a333b2be0807201436p2e9054a0rb56a383de8775c69@mail.gmail.com> References: <a333b2be0807201436p2e9054a0rb56a383de8775c69@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote: > The installer may be allowed to make an installation diskette or USB stick > to store installation options . > When a new installation is tried on the same machine or in another similar > machine ( especially for multiple installations ), > allow user to use such an aid to use input of options . > As an example : Mandriva Free 2008 . The sysinstall(8) utility already automatic installation (though it could be improved). Nothing prevents you also from installing FreeBSD on a thumb drive and create some custom installation script. [...] > I am not fluent in C/C++ as much as Pascal and actually I am not using them. > This means that I am not able to suggest any solution about mentioned > improvements at present other than > inform you about problems . I doubt you would need C/C++ or Pascal. Shell scripting would suffice. > I copied "/boot/defaults/loader.conf "as "/boot/loader.conf ". The loader already reads /boot/defaults/loader.conf so you only need to add to /boot/loader.conf the things that you want to change. > I have changed the following parameters : > > usb_load="YES" > ukbd_load="YES" > ums_load="YES" > umass_load="YES" > umodem_load="YES" > uscanner_load="YES" > > > After these changes when started to boot FreeBSD , it is locked in detecting > ( or probing ) keyboard controller . I guess you are attempting to load ukbd with the GENERIC kernel, that already includes the driver. [trimmed stuff] > There is no any rescue CD ( let's say ) to repair the above mentioned parts > ( configuration files ) . > > I think this is a very important point to consider . ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso > During installation , if a list of ports collection is selected , it is > continuously asking interchange of CD's . [trimmed stuff] > There no DVD *.ISO files for installations . If it is NOT diifcult to > generate DVD *.ISO files , > it may solve this CD interchanging difficulty . This was also lengthly discussed before too. Consider the option of installing packages from network. If an installation DVD is required then look at FreeBSD Mall: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm > The above points show that installation steps of FreeBSD should be > re-considered carefully > when compared to other operating system installations . They are already being considered. Please follow the discussion lists for a while. [discussion about installation, GUI-based installation, et cetera] There are several ongoing projects attempting to address this. Take a look at PC-BSD and DesktopBSD: http://www.desktopbsd.net/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.
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