bin/161924: bsdinstall(8): add msg box telling user to remove
install media
Garrett Cooper
yanegomi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 04:00:41 UTC 2011
On Oct 30, 2011, at 7:50 PM, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/161924; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "deeptech71 at gmail.com" <deeptech71 at gmail.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: bin/161924: bsdinstall(8): add msg box telling user to remove
> install media
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:19:25 +0100
>
> See my mailing list post [1] and Garrett Cooper's bug followup post
> [2] for reasons why this should be approached very conservatively, if
> at all.
>
> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-September/027715.html
> [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/160913#reply1
If one really wants eject functionality, the install media needs to be redone with a memory disk image like sysinstall. Otherwise there isn't any way for it to be done reliably as noted in the above two links.
-Garrett
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