On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

check the install-etc-files target in src/etc/Makefile

- Hubert

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Martin Husemann wrote:

Are there plans to fix setlocale() to give this a real effect in the
crunchgen'd environment? Or why do this at all?

- Hubert

Edwina wrote:

http://usage.bollywoodmantra.net

Bollywoodmantra capital

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Six months ago I started from scratch writing a book about NetBSD. It is a
around 140 pages. The goal is not to be too technical or overly in-depth,
but useful for someone to quickly get started with NetBSD. 200 pages max
is probably my goal length.

Anyways, I haven't had chance to work on it much and now I am having
problems documenting both 4.0 and upcoming 5.0 installer.

I think I will just make the book open source but haven't started a
project for that yet.

The PDF of the book just up to the installation chapter and the LaTeX
source for that chapter are here:

http://reedmedia.net/~reed/tmp-netbsd-book-09x828c9v5br/

You will see that I have many TODO listed through out this chapter.

I think the installation chapter is becoming too indepth -- but I want to
at least make it so if someone has questions that they are answered in the
book. Maybe I am trying to cover sysinst too much.

I have many, many screenshots from different platforms and 4.0 and some
-current -- but the book doesn't included them all. I am thinking that 25+
screenshots showing every possible screen is too much.

Any comments, advice, answers, and/or diffs would be appreciated.

When selecting disk, disks are identified by their NetBSD device name and
disk number.

Is it easily doable for sysinst to also show the disk manufacturer name
and details (size, etc)?

http://leisure.googlebong.com

Alvin Lechlak GoogleBong

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Hi folks,

The original WAPBL patches had sysinst support for enabling journaling
by reserving space at the end of the filesystem since that was the only
supported log position. This involved a fair bit of work to sysinst
to add menus for journal log sizes and so on. Now, we can just add an
option to enable the mount "log" option.

The following patch does this. Any problems with this? My main comment
is that adding any fs options is a bit hidden, but I can't think of an
easy way to address that.

One other comment - maybe move softdep and log above all the rest
(async, noatime, ...)? I suspect those two will be the more common
choices.

Cheers,
Simon.

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Hello everyone,

I'm back with the status report. :) I've been hard at work over here
on good old sysinst, hacking it up quite a bit. Here's some context if
you need it:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/2008/04/25/msg000008.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/2008/05/29/msg000025.html
http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/install-tool/
Here's a basic rundown since the last tech-install status report.

To start off, the original timeline was pretty much abandoned from the
start. In hindsight, it was a rather naive timeline, which didn't
really grasp how the project should be tackled. So I started off with
the parser on advice from my mentor. I might have spent too much time
on it initially without knowing enough about the sysinst internals,
but working on it gave me a lot of insight on the overall design. So
maybe I wasn't as aware at how sysinst worked, but it gave me more of
a chance to think about how it _should_ work.

The parser has been a very interesting project. The first impression I
get is that it's big--over 2500 lines at the moment, and it's going to
need to grow a little more, though almost all functionality...

What is the recommended / supported way to use wireless card when
installing NetBSD (to get sets over network for example)?

I escaped to shell and used ifconfig to attempt to setup nwid and nwkey.
(That didn't work due to missing firmware -- see other email.)

Also the dhcp client failed in sysinst.

But the screen blanked and had prompt for DNS domain, then hostname, then
DNS server.

No real indication that DHCP failed other than IPv4 address was not set.
If someone didn't notice that, they may think it worked.

Probably should have prompt or message about DHCP client failure.

Used latest boot.iso for amd64 HEAD 4.99.67 from
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200806270002Z/amd64/installation/cdr.../

Didn't detect my builtin wireless.

So plugged in my rum0. Restarted sysinst.

Received errors (repeated):

rum0: failed loadfirmware of file rum-rt2573 (error 2)

The license allows it to be shipped. The file is very small.

Why no firmware on boot.iso?