Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:50:31 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Belov, Sergey" <sbelov@mera.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, roudoud0u@free.fr Subject: Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <20070409155031.GA31260@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070409093908.GE8935@tcbug.org> References: <39EC34D18C53EA428BA9A05A01CB2E8C8F4BD8@qmail.merann.ru> <20070409061241.GA4467@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070409093908.GE8935@tcbug.org>
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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:39:08AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0400, Belov, Sergey wrote: > > >=20 > > > > hit the same bug too with FreeBSD-6.1. To workaround this, i've just > > > > added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value wasn't > > > > mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( ) > > > > So try with this: > > > > dists=3Dbase GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel > > > > distSetCustom > > >=20 > > > Thank you. I've also found interesting thread here: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/123640= .ht > > > ml > > >=20 > > > It seems that automatic installation mechanism is far from perfect and > > > there's nobody=20 > > > who interested in fixing the problems. > >=20 > > Are you sure it was not fixed in 6.2? > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > distSetCustom has been broken ever since the goo was added to make=20 > sysinstall smart enough to install either GENERIC or SMP depending on=20 > how many processors are in the machine. After that change was made=20 > the kernels target to distSetCustom stopped working. My workaround=20 > has been to hack the distSetMinimal target in sysinstall to put in=20 > what I want. I guess I should've submitted a PR at some point... Yes. Kris --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGmDHWry0BWjoQKURAnW5AJ9BNGIJpsxfpvkxo+Gis6pRE31nKQCeN5aa 7W3U3YveqEEgzSbKIoLD72M= =rMIb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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