BSDInstaller Beta 2 release
Andrew Turner
andrew at fubar.geek.nz
Sun Dec 11 23:05:43 PST 2005
Marius N_nnerich wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:39:03 +1300
>Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz> wrote:
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>
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>>I am pleased to announce the second release of FreeBSD install CD's
>>based on the BSD Installer.
>>
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>thanks for your work.
>
>I did a quick test and found that
>
>* I can deselect every distribution and accept that "selection",
> this obviously didn't work to install. I think there should at
> least be a hint that base is required.
>
>
Thanks, I've added a note pointing out base is important.
>* The window to select the distributions is called "Select Packages"
>
>
Corrected the name.
>* /README is missing
>
>* kern.geom.debugflags is set to 16. Is this to allow to manipulate
> slice and partition information while the disk is mounted? If so,
> isn't there a better way (mounting the disk after editing those
> tables)?
>
>
I needed it to install the mbr but dosn't appear to be needed anymore.
>* The ISO should imo contain a portsnap snapshot and not only
> ports.tgz
>
>
I will when it is availiable in the release Makefile as it is outside
the scope of this.
>* Maybe for src the appropriate checkouts file for cvsup
>
>* fdisk and bsdlabel are called very often?!
>
>
Talk to the main BSDInstaller developers about that.
>* Did I miss where to install the standard MBR instead of the menu one?
>
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No, there is currently no way of doing it.
>* The selected keymap is not written to /etc/rc.conf of the new system?
>
>
I'll look into it.
>
>So far I like the Installer.
>Maybe one day someone integrates a graphical frontend
>for the installer (eg. like desktopbsd) :)
>
>
As the frontend and backend are seperate processes it is possible to
write a graphical frontend.
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