Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Apr 9 06:12:44 UTC 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0400, Belov, Sergey wrote:
> 
> > 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=base GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel
> > distSetCustom
> 
> Thank you. I've also found interesting thread here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/123640.ht
> ml
> 
> It seems that automatic installation mechanism is far from perfect and
> there's nobody 
> who interested in fixing the problems.

Are you sure it was not fixed in 6.2?

Kris
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