Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:41:42 -0500 From: Ross <westr@connection.ca> To: don Juan <fmember@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <353224805.20100304104142@connection.ca> In-Reply-To: <2c16b4711002240651q5ac2128fl19010e8bec39bfd9@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c16b4711002240651q5ac2128fl19010e8bec39bfd9@mail.gmail.com>
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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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