Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:06:28 +0900 (JST) From: TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> To: nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <20110303.010628.59640143160060699.nyan@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org>
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In article <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes: > BSDinstall has acquired at this point its final form (prior to a > future merge with pc-sysinstall), and I believe is ready to replace > sysinstall on the 9.0 snapshot ISOs. Barring any objections, I would > like to pull this switch 2 weeks from today, on the 14th of March. > > A patch to the release infrastructure code can be found here (make > release must be run with Makefile.bsdinstall using this patch to get > non-sysinstall media): > http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-release.diff In Makefile.bsdinstall: +cdrom: + echo kernel_options=\"-C\" > ${DISTDIR}/release/boot/loader.conf + sh /usr/src/release/${TARGET}/mkisoimages.sh -b FreeBSD_Install ${DISTDIR}/release.iso ${DISTDIR}/release + rm ${DISTDIR}/release/boot/loader.conf ${TARGET} must be ${TARGET_ARCH} because pc98 and sunv4 don't have mkisoimages.sh script. Do you have a plan to add a floppy support as boot device? Pc98 machines which can boot from CD-ROM are very limited. So we usually use FD for boot media to install. --- TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org>
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