Installer request
Hi, I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after installation. The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot mode I can't access it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Installer request
On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after installation. The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot mode I can't access it. Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow. -Nathan ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Installer request
On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after >> installation. >> >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly >> installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot >> mode I can't access it. > > Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow. Thanks! Also, many thanks for your installer work, it's nice to have a live CD and easily hackable shell scripts to install from, so many interesting possibilities.. :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Installer request
On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode after >> installation. >> >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly >> installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot >> mode I can't access it. > > Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow. While I'm making wishes.. What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab? It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in the face of disk changes and so on.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Installer request
On 29/03/2011, at 19:49, Lars Engels wrote: >> What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab? >> >> It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in the >> face of disk changes and so on.. > > Please don't do that by default. I really hate to open a linux fstab, I > don't want that on FreeBSD, too. I agree it's ugly, but I don't edit my fstab very often :) > IMHO geom labels would be sufficient. The problem is that labels tend to be the same between machines because they all have /, swap, etc.. BTW GPT can store a label as well as having a UUID. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Installer request
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 03:12:51PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 29/03/2011, at 4:28, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On 03/28/11 00:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I would like it if the installer had an option to exit to live CD mode > >> after installation. > >> > >> The reason being that I have a tar file I want to splat onto the newly > >> installed system residing on the USB stick the installer is on. In chroot > >> mode I can't access it. > > > > Sure, that's easy to do. I'll try to get it in today or tomorrow. > > While I'm making wishes.. > > What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab? > > It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in the > face of disk changes and so on.. Please don't do that by default. I really hate to open a linux fstab, I don't want that on FreeBSD, too. IMHO geom labels would be sufficient. pgpmupEtXq5mJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
