Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:11:47 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <4D6E6C43.4010101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110303.010628.59640143160060699.nyan@FreeBSD.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> <20110303.010628.59640143160060699.nyan@FreeBSD.org>
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On 03/02/11 10:06, TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro wrote: > In article<4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> > Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes: > >> BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a >> future merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace >> sysinstall on the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would >> like to pull this switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. >> >> A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make >> release must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get >> non-sysinstall media): >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff > In Makefile.bsdinstall: > > +cdrom: > + echo kernel_options=\"-C\"> ${DISTDIR}/release/boot/loader.conf > + sh /usr/src/release/${TARGET}/mkisoimages.sh -b FreeBSD_Install ${DISTDIR}/release.iso ${DISTDIR}/release > + rm ${DISTDIR}/release/boot/loader.conf > > ${TARGET} must be ${TARGET_ARCH} because pc98 and sunv4 don't have > mkisoimages.sh script. I was thinking of just copying the i386/mkisoimages.sh and making the -G behavior the default. It seems to me to make more sense to use MACHINE than MACHINE_ARCH for this, since pc98 seems to have different requirements than i386. We could just copy the sparc64 install script for sun4v. > Do you have a plan to add a floppy support as boot device? Pc98 > machines which can boot from CD-ROM are very limited. So we usually > use FD for boot media to install. No, I hadn't thought about this. If there aren't any machines you care about that don't have a CD drive at all, we could try a CD-bootloader-on-a-floppy as a solution. I think a totally floppy based install would be very difficult to arrange, however. -Nathan
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