Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:28:54 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbfs install option for sysinstall Message-ID: <42254106.8070006@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050301175414.29170.qmail@web31007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050301175414.29170.qmail@web31007.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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David Yeske wrote: > I modified the installer a while back to be able to install from a smb share. > It needs a little work though. I'm looking for some feedback although I have > tested it recently. I have done a recent install from a Windows XP machine > joined to a domain using a share that had domain admin credentials. > > http://futurebsd.sourceforge.net/freebsd/smbfs/ > > Here are a couple of issues that should be fixed. > > 1. I am not sure how to get the smbfs kernel support into the installer without > also putting it into the GENERIC kernel of the release. Probably not a big deal, unless it presents a security risk by default. I don't know enough about smbfs to say. > > 2. If a user uses is prompted for a password, then the output will make > sysinstall look kinda funny, although the user can enter the password properly. > There is probably a way to intercept the stdin and stdout of mount_smbfs and > have it display in a menu? This should work similar to the root password > change option? Probably easiest to do it this way. Sysinstall isn't pretty, but making it uglier with misformatted dialogs isn't good either. > > 3. This may add too much space to the floppy installer? No longer a problem now that the splitfs support is in. > > 4. The English used in the menus could be better. > > Regards, > David Yeske > Scott
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