Introduce 'netDev=ANY' support for scripted (install.cfg) installs, which
results in the first ethernet interface with physical link being selected.
Approved by: cperciva (mentor)
Make the "Q = Finish" text visible when running sysinstall as a normal
application. Reword the boot manager screen to try and avoid confusion.
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
Prevent sysinstall from needlessly waiting for confirmation when using an USB
device in non-interactive mode.
If there are no USB devices, sysinstall gives an error messages, and if there
is >1, it'll ask which one is to be used. This change allows a non-interactive
install from USB media to succeed without any user interaction if there is
exactly one USB disk device in the system it can use.
Submitted by: Daniel O'Connor < doconnorat gsoft dot com dot au >
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: re (rwatson)
to 'Expert Mode', to make it less confusing to new users, to whom
a 'wizard' is a set of simple dialogs with the 'next >>>' button.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
both the disk partitioning screen (the 'F' key) and via install.cfg (the
VAR_DEDICATED_DISK option). This functionality is currently broken in 8.x
due to libdisk and geom generating different partition names; this commit
merely acts to help steer users away from the breakage.
Submitted by: randi
Approved by: re (kensmith)
While doing so, improve style and reword some comments.
This should not result in any functional changes, but the fixit_livefs_common
function will be used by future code.
Submitted by: randi
Approved by: re (kensmith)
FreeBSD docset during 'make release' this will speed up release
builds;
- sysinstall(8) has also been updated to use these packages with a new
menu allowing people to choose what localized doc to install;
- mention in UPDATING that docs from the FreeBSD Documentation project
are now installed in /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd instead of
/usr/share/doc.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
A fresh install of a current 8.0 snapshot uses 156MB with a single kernel
and having the filesystem too small prevented the system from booting.
Reviewed by: marcel
MFC after: 1 week
This covers the common case of unsliced USB drives, and makes it possible to
select them as installation source media.
PR: 61152, 115197, 135016
Submitted by: randi
MFC after: 1 month
is, consistently call it the boot manager, and switch the order the
options are presented so no boot manager is first in the list (and
hence more or less the default).
This area will probably be rototilled more before 8.0 comes out.
