http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1288 <pre> Recently, I added some code to evbarm to allow installation via sysinst over sshd. This allows a user to boot a headless Raspberry PI, ssh into it as "sysinst" with a password of "netbsd", and have it launch sysinst to begin the installation. It also supports the console, so if they don't want to ssh in, they can still install normally. There are a few reasons I think this is useful: 1) It's kinda annoying to buy an HDMI cable and USB keyboard just to install the PI, and then immediately disconnect them and toss them. 2) I envision this could be really useful, on a system like an NSLU2, where our current install instructions tell the user to solder a serial port onto the device. In this instance, they could instead boot the image, and just ssh in to kick sysinst off. 3) I wouldn't actually mind if other ports had this ability, as I could toss the cd in, boot, and go back to my desk rather than standing in front of my machine rack. How does it work? The embedded ramdisk contains dhcpcd, and sshd. O</pre> Tim Rightnour 2013-03-20T16:56:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1284 <pre> Currently no port uses the md_init() function in sysinst. I would like to use this function in evbarm, however, it doesn't do what I want. Currently this function is called prior to the menu system being inititalized. I would like to ask the user a question before beginning the installation (what kind of eval board do you have?). Does anyone object to me moving the call to md_init down in main(), so it is called immediately after the menu system is initialized, but before the first menu is presented to the user? --- Tim Rightnour &lt;root&lt; at &gt;garbled.net&gt; NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/ Genecys: Open Source 3D MMORPG: http://www.genecys.org/ </pre> Tim Rightnour 2013-03-08T16:01:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1283 <pre> G'day! How are doing? What is your name? Your profile is Doremi11 but I can't get what's your real name. This only indicates you are into music. Why did you delete your profile? I couldn't read it. My profile is Agneshka1984 from the friend finder website. I got your message there, so as you demanded I am messaging you to your personal email address. And I attach my pic. If you like this photo and you mail me back, I will send you some more my pictures. My real name is Agneshka. My friends call me Agness. I'm from Ukraine. I am 28. I would like to have friends in Australia because I am intending to come there for 3 months. I will visit there really soon. That's why I will be very delighted to be friends with you. Btw, in what city in Australia do you live? I hope you will message me soon! But please, message me to my personal email address: agness9&lt; at &gt;rocketmail.com Best wishes, Agness. </pre> infodatingAustralia< at >lampverderio.com 2013-03-05T14:05:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1282 <pre>NetBSD- and Lua-Users I am working on NetBSD system installer extentions for sysinst that allows sysinst to be scripted in Lua. The basic idea is that an installation script can be shipped with the install media (or put on a netinstall server) that drives the installation process (or parts thereof). If no such script is present, the standard way of the installation procedure will run. A sample script I wrote, e.g. can install and configure pkgsrc packages during the install procedure. It has been particularly "difficult" to deal with sysinst's i18n system, for example message strings would need a space at the end if the message is continued on the next line. An earlier version of my sysinst changes used i18n written in C, but I think it could better be done entirely in Lua. I am solicitating comments and ideas on this. Attached are three files (not very elaborate code, just meant as proof of concept): i18n.lua, a "library" that translates messages, and i18n.de, i18n.fr two sample message catalogs for</pre> Marc Balmer 2013-02-06T19:01:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1247 <pre>Hello, I am aware this has been asked several times already, but it really would be nice to have some way of automating the installation for NetBSD. If anyone is working on this, please let me know. Thanks, Josh. </pre> Josh Branning 2012-10-21T22:08:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1245 <pre>Hi, split from install/38571. I would like to add the option to run etcupdate(8) from sysinst when doing an upgrade (after running postinstall). The patch introduces a new function run_program_nocurses which exits curses, starts etcupdate, and afterwards goes back to curses. You have to exit curses for this in order to see the top three lines. Objections? Regards, Julian </pre> Julian Djamil Fagir 2012-09-22T19:22:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1233 <pre>Hello, I saw there was a post about having something similar to Debian FAI on NetBSD, and I'm really interested in that feature. I will explain a little bit the reason why this feature would be useful in my case. The Xen.org project has a test system, to assure that each change committed doesn't break anything. The test system performs automatic installs of several Linux distributions on bare metal, and tests Xen on them. Since the number of physical machines is probably lower than the number of OSes to test, and we always want to perform a clean install before we start testing, the hosts are installed automatically and without user interaction (usually by passing a file that contains the answers to the questions asked by the installer). Adding NetBSD to this test system will help finding bugs much more faster, and prevent newer features from breaking NetBSD support. So, to get to the point, is there any chance to have such a feature added to sysinst? I've done a quick look at the code, and it seems it </pre> Roger Pau Monne 2012-09-05T16:34:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1226 <pre>Hello, I've noticed a slight issue with 6.0BETA and 6.0BETA2. After doing an install on a new CF card, here's what we get: -------------- fdisk /dev/wd0 -------------- Disk: /dev/wd0d NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: cylinders: 8150, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 8215200 BIOS disk geometry: cylinders: 512, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 8215200 Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63 Partition table: 0: Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (&gt; 32MB) (sysid 6) start 8192, size 80325 (39 MB, Cyls 0/130/3-5/130/2), Active 1: &lt;UNUSED&gt; 2: &lt;UNUSED&gt; 3: &lt;UNUSED&gt; First active partition: 0 ----------------- The surprising part is that NetBSD 6.0 BETA &amp; BETA2 can run on this flash card. Part of that is because hpcarm uses Windows CE to load the NetBSD kernel. But there is a disklabel somewhere. Here's what disklabel says: ------------------ disklabel /dev/wd0 ------------------ # /dev/wd0d: type: unknown disk: TRANSCEND la</pre> jmitchel< at >bigjar.com 2012-07-14T07:12:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1221 <pre>Hi, there was a request from a hosting company that are currently providing NetBSD to their customers, but having to do the installation manually every time by a technician. So they asked whether there is a way of automatic installation via network boot. Apart from that, making NetBSD suitable for larger installations like exactly that, or having a large number of desktop clients that are to be installed automatically (like FAI from Debian), would be very nice. I think, for the beginning a simple script that is started after a network boot (as would sysinst be), then downloads tarfiles, uses the whole disk, unpacks tarfiles, runs installboot(8), would be sufficient. Maybe a script for the user is called in the end, to enable him to set passwords or standard console (this could be implemented as well). Is somebody here who already has something like that or has time to write and test it? If so, please mail me. Maybe we could have an auto installation script before 6.0 release. Regards, Julian </pre> Julian Fagir 2012-06-18T19:37:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1210 <pre>Hello, It's possible to run NetBSD/xen in the DomUs of many hosting providers which disavow any NetBSD support. I've added mount_ext2fs and newfs_ext2fs to my installation ramdisk to create and mount the disklabel slice where pv-grub looks to find its configuration file and kernels. Yes, pv-grub does have some ffs support, but it doesn't seem to able to cope with filesystems created with -O2 (I was going to write UFS2, but the whole ffs2 vs ufs2 nomenclature and taxonomy confuses me). At any rate, this is an extremely simple change that makes life easier. Can we do it? Regards, --Blair </pre> Blair Sadewitz 2012-06-17T03:42:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1203 <pre>Today I installed 6.0_BETA2 i386 in qemu. (No pinging enabled.) Here are some notes I typed in as I did it: 1) The extracted sets and devices step information was automatic but no prompt so could easily be missed. What else did I miss reading? 2) Some failure with pkgin install made it go to configuration menu again. So I had to do the configuration for networking all over again. 3) Hung here when I tried to install pkgin: Status: Running Command: /sbin/umount /targetroot/ (maybe hung for one minute) then sysinst terminated. I didn't see why. So at shell typed "exit" like it said and got the sysinst started all over: Installation messages in English ... and keyboard and then at main menu I chose config option (since already installed). 4) Why is "Your host name" already set but DNS domain is not second time? 5) Later says re0 is already configured ... use it? So yes, then dhcp yes, then domain name (and hostname) and no IPv6 and then again: I have found the following network interfaces: re0 W</pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-26T23:35:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1199 <pre>The download and extract step for pkgsrc fails because http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/pkgsrc.tgz does not exist. See http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/ for other options like tar.gz , tar.bz2 , and tar.xz Maybe the menu should allow choosing file name too? This could be a generic method. fetch and extract </pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-22T16:22:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1198 <pre>How to add extra sets to the installation? I see SET_MD_1_NAME to SET_MD_4_NAME to add to the sysinst sets menu but don't see documented. Is that what I need for sysinst? Also how do I tell the "release" and iso-image (and other) targets about my additional set(s)? I assume I can just manually put them in place, but maybe there is some variable or setting to define also? SETS overrides the default sets (so be sure to include all) What copies them to SETS_DIR? (I do manually?) IMGFILE_EXTRA to copy a file (maybe I could use that) IMGDIR_EXTRA to copy a directory I probably don't need to use src/distrib/sets/maketars or src/distrib/sets/sets.subr to generate my own sets. Maybe I don't need to use "sets", but I do want to bundle installed packages (including /var/db/pkg) or ready-to-install packages and have them installed during installation. </pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-22T14:15:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1196 <pre>What is the status of viewing the available packages (now recorded in targetroot/var/db/pkgin/pkgin.db) to select some to install? I recall some have said they worked on curses interfaces. </pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-22T13:59:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1195 <pre>I chose the enable binary packages option (it said "configure" to the right). I chose DHCP and it did some dhcp client steps and screen was full of text and then it changed to a new screen so don't know if that worked or not. I entered my domain name and hostname. When it got to the ping step it failed. Then it went to the screen for "Enabling binary packages with pkgin ...". I chose "x" to install it and update the pkg_summary. But no networking (ping failed in earlier step) so pkg_add resulted in "Host not found". Back at the Configure the additional items as needed menu it said "Failed" for it. I don't think it should have got to the install/update step since the networking failed. Well let's ignore that ... My networking does work; just the pinging is not allowed. I can do dns lookups and I can connect to a ftp server. For some reason the Host not found in the sysinst does no make sense. I can Ctrl-Z to shell and it works. But when I tried to run targetroot's pkg_add it couldn't find libf</pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-22T13:58:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1193 <pre>Hello, What can be done to make it so an installation kernel is automatically generated for the hpcarm platform? A long time ago the hpcarm port couldn't boot a kernel bigger than 3.6Mbytes and I'm guessing that's why this was never set up. But that issue has been fixed and a manually created install kernel boots up in to sysinst, so I everything is fixed. Here's what I did: 1) I added the following lines to the kernel config options MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS # boottime setup of ramdisk options MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=8800 # Size in blocks options MEMORY_DISK_IS_ROOT # use memory disk as root (I chose 8800 blocks because that's how big the unzipped miniroot.fs file is. 2) I used mdsetimage to embed the disk image into the kernel: mdsetimage netbsd miniroot.fs Unfortunately, using an install kernel with the ramdisk as a separate file doesn't work. This might be a limitation of the Windows CE bootloader, but I'm not sure. Anyway, if there's more information needed, I'll do m</pre> jmitchel< at >bigjar.com 2012-05-20T10:54:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1190 <pre>This is from sysinst from HEAD fromabout ten days ago. I chose the Config menu option. Next screen says assume you want to configure a prior installation. Well I didn't install yet. But says "enter to continue". If no option to abort, then should just do the detection step: The next step is attempt to fsck and command failed with bad super block. Next screen: It appears is not a BSD file syste ... "upgrade" has been aborted. Error number 8. It is not an "upgrade". Then next screen shows configuration choices "a: Configure network" through "j: Enable mdnsd". Then 6 junk error lines overwriting it (white text on black where other menu is white text on blue): No such file ... and ... Could not open /targetroot/tmp/checkrc.sh for writing: No directory. (I can press Ctrl-L but regular users would be scared.) By the way, it said the full install is 31 MB (no X) or 81 MB (with X). Normally it is around 230MB and 330 MB. Why does it suggest small size? </pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-18T15:24:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1188 <pre>What is the status of including sysinst in the base (like /usr/sbin) ? I want to run it on a live CD. In addition, I may extend it to have option to copy some directory from the live cd's home to the new install. (That is the user may have already created files while using live cd and may want to save them.) </pre> Jeremy C. Reed 2012-05-18T14:39:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1167 <pre>Hi, unfortunately, the recent sysinst rewrite ceased. But there are features current sysinst is missing, and which are complicated to implement (that is, gpt, raid, cgd modifying). The questions is: What to do about them? I've been thinking about this quite a long time... Ok, first have a look at the other BSD installers: * FreeBSD - they just created their new bsdinstall(8), which is mostly a shell script calling other shell scripts, directly using dialog inside these scripts. While easy to extend, you cannot add other interfaces easily. I read they wanted to make an easy interface to pc-install (or whatever it is called), the graphical installer from PC-BSD, but I didn't look close enough at it to really sort out where. * OpenBSD - has a single shell script. Perhaps I just mis-read that, can somebody object this? * DragonFlyBSD - has bsdinstaller.org, which comes close to mbalmer's initial approach. It's a flexible combination of Lua and C with several interfaces (gtk, Qt, </pre> Julian Fagir 2012-03-29T00:18:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1166 <pre>We are reseller of Apple models,All Brand New in Original Box + USB cable + Apple Charger Adapter + Apple Headsets + Manual Instruction + Apple sticker APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB = $400 http://www.apple.com/iphone/ APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI = $750 http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Ultra Thin APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop = $750 http://www.apple.com/mac/ APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop = $800 http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ BUMPER PACKAGE OFFER FOR $3500 +3 APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB +3 APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI +1 FREE APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop +1 FREE APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop BUMPER PACKAGE(2) OFFER FOR $5000 +4 APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB +4 APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI +2 FREE APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop +2 FREE APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop Payment Terms: Western Union,MoneyGram,PayPal or T/T Wire Delivery Mode: DHL 5-6 days to Doorstep They also comes with 1 year extended Apple care warranty that can be activated upon purchase under your name For More info Email us ASAP Thanks and best regards TELECOM ECOSSE</pre> TELECOM ECOSSE LMTD-UK 2012-03-26T18:00:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation/1165 <pre>We are reseller of Apple models,All Brand New in Original Box + USB cable + Apple Charger Adapter + Apple Headsets + Manual Instruction + Apple sticker APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB = $400 http://www.apple.com/iphone/ APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI = $750 http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Ultra Thin APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop = $750 http://www.apple.com/mac/ APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop = $800 http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ BUMPER PACKAGE OFFER FOR $3500 +3 APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB +3 APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI +1 FREE APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop +1 FREE APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop BUMPER PACKAGE(2) OFFER FOR $5000 +4 APPLE iPHONE 4S/32GB +4 APPLE iPAD3 64GB/4G/WIFI +2 FREE APPLE MacBook AIR 13" Laptop +2 FREE APPLE MacBook Pro 13" Laptop Payment Terms: Western Union,MoneyGram,PayPal or T/T Wire Delivery Mode: DHL 5-6 days to Doorstep They also comes with 1 year extended Apple care warranty that can be activated upon purchase under your name For More info Email us ASAP Thanks and best regards TELECOM ECOSSE</pre> TELECOM ECOSSE LMTD-UK 2012-03-26T18:02:56 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation