Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:25:55 +0200 From: don Juan <fmember@gmail.com> To: Ross <westr@connection.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <g2q2c16b4711004060425s5610c26ka04fbb3d19868d2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <353224805.20100304104142@connection.ca> References: <2c16b4711002240651q5ac2128fl19010e8bec39bfd9@mail.gmail.com> <353224805.20100304104142@connection.ca>
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thank you, thenk you, thank you :) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross <westr@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=3D#### > > Where the #### is a bitfield for which versions of the doc packages > you want installed. =A0Also the bitfield must be in _decimal_, not 0x## > format, or it won't correctly select what you want. =A0You need to view > version 1.75 or higher of dist.h (from sysinstall's source) to get the > full listing. =A0URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/= sysinstall/dist.h?rev=3D1.75.2.1.2.1;content-type=3Dtext%2Fplain > > 0 (zero) disables installation. =A016 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. =A0(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=3Dyes" is set in your sysinstall.cfg file. > > > R. > > -- > > >
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