From owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 21:37:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AB916A4D3 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3366D43D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 92625 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Jan 2004 05:37:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.4.1.5?) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 8 Jan 2004 05:37:07 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:39:34 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long X-X-Sender: scottl@pooker.samsco.home To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <200401080401.i08414Ld093554@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20040107223112.H32001@pooker.samsco.home> References: <200401080401.i08414Ld093554@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: bmah@freebsd.org cc: j_guojun@lbl.gov cc: re@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/60349: 5.2-RC1 cannot do NFS installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Quality Assurance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 05:37:15 -0000 On further investigation, it's going to be rather difficult to make floppy 3 be mandatory. The loader is set up so that loader.rc merely stages floppy 2 for the loader to load after it has loaded the kernel. There is no way for loader.rc to stage two floppies at the same time. Sysinstall could be changed to either force the loading of hte floppy 3 modules, or intelligently detect when nfsclient.ko is needed and not present, and prompt the user to insert the floppy. However, this then requires that sysinstall know what drivers are on floppy 3, something that adds to the maintenance burden. It also presents quite a bit of risk at this late stage of the process. My suggestion is to document this in the release notes and/or errata. It appears that the problem can be avoided by manually loading nfsclient.ko off of floppy 3 when sysinstall starts. Sysinstall appears to be equiped to assist with this, so it shouldn't be too hard to document. Your thoughts? Scott On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Doug White wrote: > Synopsis: 5.2-RC1 cannot do NFS installation > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open > State-Changed-By: dwhite > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 7 19:58:57 PST 2004 > State-Changed-Why: > Kick over to Scott to implement the solution. > > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-qa->scottl > Responsible-Changed-By: dwhite > Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jan 7 19:58:57 PST 2004 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Kick over to Scott to implement the solution. He's going to make the 3rd > floppy mandatory so nfsclient.ko gets loaded. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=60349 > >