- Use pool.ntp.org servers where possible, thanks to
Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac dot com> .
- Update list of Swedish NTP servers, thanks to
Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-current at shapeshifter dot se> .
PR: bin/75479
MFC after: 1 day
1. Provide larger /, /var, and /tmp partitions (the last increase was
in 2001, and we now have both larger hard drives and more space-hungry
software.)
2. If there is enough space available, allocate extra space to /var
sufficient to store a crash dump.
On systems where harddrivesize > 3 * RAMsize + 10GB, the default sizes
will now be as follows:
swap RAMsize * 2
/ 512 MB
/tmp 512 MB
/var 1024 MB + RAMsize
/usr the rest (8GB or more)
On systems where harddrivesize > RAMsize / 8 + 2 GB, the default sizes
will be in the following ranges, with space allocated proportionally:
swap RAMsize / 8 -- RAMsize * 2
/ 256 MB -- 512 MB
/tmp 128 MB -- 512 MB
/var 128 MB -- 1024 MB
/usr 1536 MB -- 8192 MB
On systems with even less disk space, the existing behaviour is not
changed.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 1 day
(or once people stop arguing about colours of paint)
it is running during installations. The vsystem() function does get
used after this happens (e.g. if you manually configure the network
interface and ask it to enable the interface) so it needs to be a
little smarter about whether it uses /stand/sh or /bin/sh.
MFC after: 3 days
the NTP server list.
The servers are by Internet Multifeed Co., and connected to their
IX service JPNAP. It would be a good NTP server for machines in Japan.
See also http://www.jst.mfeed.ad.jp/ for more details (Japanese only).
Reviewed by: nork
with EBUSY and a cdrom is not mounted at /cdrom, sysinstall fails to
treat it as an error and thinks that the disk mounted ok. However, it
doesn't find a cdrom.inf file so it complains. Later when it tries to
unmount the disk due to a mediaClose() umount(2) returns an error, and it
never clears its internal mounted flag. The fix here is to properly
handle EBUSY as an error if there isn't a CD already mounted at /cdrom.
- Add a new CDROMInitQuiet variable that can be used to shut up the dialog
box about the mount(2) system call failing when trying to mount a CD-ROM.
This is used by the feature described below.
- When using a fixit CD, first try to see if we can mount the disc in the
drive now and use it as a fixit CD. If not, then prompt the user to
insert the disc and try again. If we do succeed on the first "silent"
probe then we don't ask the user to eject the disk after leaving fixit
mode.
- Add a simple file existence test to make sure that the disc that we mount
really is a livefs disc.
- Explicitly switch back to ttyv0 when using the standard console after
the fixit shell dies. Previously this behavior worked accidentally
because all the fixit modes popped up a dialog box which contained a
hidden switch to ttyv0.
MFC after: 1 day
disk. This is main reason why sysinstall presents SCSI CDROM to
available disks in Fdisk/Label menu. In addition, adding a blank
SCSI CDROM to the menu generates floating point exception in sparc64.
Disk_Names() just extracts sysctl "kern.disks". Why GEOM treats SCSI
CDROM as a disk is beyond me and that should be investigated.
For temporary workaround, ignore SCSI CDROM device.
PR: sparc64/72962
Tested by: R. Tyler Ballance < tyler AT tamu DOT edu>
MFC after: 1 week
This adds a safebelt that prevents users to mark more than
one "active" partitions, which will lead to a unbootable
machine, especially in multi-boot configurations.
PR: bin/71404
MFC After: 3 days
Approved by: murray (mentor)
VT6122 gigabit ethernet chip and integrated 10/100/1000 copper PHY.
The vge driver has been added to GENERIC for i386, pc98 and amd64,
but not to sparc or ia64 since I don't have the ability to test
it there. The vge(4) driver supports VLANs, checksum offload and
jumbo frames.
Also added the lge(4) and nge(4) drivers to GENERIC for i386 and
pc98 since I was in the neighborhood. There's no reason to leave them
out anymore.
concensus seems to be that is best left for doing post-install.
Discussed on: freebsd-current@
Tested with: make release
Approved by: re@
MFC after: 3 days
to get used to the fact that Perl is no longer part of the base system.
It is practically impossible to install any useful package and not get
Perl automatically pulled in as a dependency. So the typical user will
get their Perl.
This change greatly reduces the amount of manual labor in building the
miniinst.iso in release building.
contents of /usr/src/rescue. Until now, the files were shipped with
releases but sysinstall would ignore them (resulting in a non-buildable
source tree).
Sanity checked by: jhb
