install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

[don Juan]

thank you, thenk you, thank you :)

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross <westr at connection.ca> wrote:
>
> dJ> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
> dJ> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
> dJ> what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,
> dJ> English Documentation.
>
> It's undocumented (and breaks non-interactive installs) so I ended up
> going through the source to find the answer for myself a while ago.
>
> The option you want is:
>
> distDoc=####
>
> Where the #### is a bitfield for which versions of the doc packages
> you want installed.  Also the bitfield must be in _decimal_, not 0x##
> format, or it won't correctly select what you want.  You need to view
> version 1.75 or higher of dist.h (from sysinstall's source) to get the
> full listing.  URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dist.h?rev=1.75.2.1.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> 0 (zero) disables installation.  16 is english.
>
> *** WARNING/RANT: If you use any of the "distSetxxxxxx" (eg:
> distSetKernDeveloper) options to select what to install, it doesn't
> matter what you've selected above - you _will_ be prompted with a menu
> to select a doc package upon running sysinstall.  (Those options reset
> distDoc option above).
>
> Non-interactive sysinstall is effectively broken in FreeBSD 8.0
> distribution disks. (There is a way around it, but it's a pain in the
> butt)
>
> That being said: sysinstall has been patched in source last month (Feb
> 2010), so should be good for 8.1, with the default of no docs
> installed if "nonInteractive=yes" is set in your sysinstall.cfg file.
>
>
> R.
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