smbfs install option for sysinstall
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Wed Mar 2 04:31:06 GMT 2005
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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