Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:25:37 +0400 From: "Belov, Sergey" <sbelov@mera.ru> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <roudoud0u@free.fr> Subject: RE: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <39EC34D18C53EA428BA9A05A01CB2E8C8F4CC9@qmail.merann.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070409155031.GA31260@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <39EC34D18C53EA428BA9A05A01CB2E8C8F4BD8@qmail.merann.ru> <20070409061241.GA4467@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070409093908.GE8935@tcbug.org> <20070409155031.GA31260@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Yes, 'kernels' still doesn't work. I have January2007 ISO images, maybe later it was fixed. I don't know. And one more thing. Is there anyone who can explain why these commands are failed? http://beautynn.cololo.com/lj/tupoy/system.gif -----Original Message----- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org]=20 Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:51 PM To: Kris Kennaway; Belov, Sergey; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; roudoud0u@free.fr Subject: Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel 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=20 > > > > just added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value=20 > > > > wasn't mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( ) So=20 > > > > try with this: > > > > dists=3Dbase GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel=20 > > > > distSetCustom > > >=20 > > > Thank you. I've also found interesting thread here: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/123 > > > 640.ht > > > ml > > >=20 > > > It seems that automatic installation mechanism is far from perfect > > > and there's nobody 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
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