BTW, if somebody would like to take a look at the German
README I notice that the special characters got totally stripped
somehow and I'm not entirely sure how to put them back! [-jkh] :(
Submitted by: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@lirmm.fr>
Folks - please review these! I'm quite sleepy at the moment, and I'm
sure that some of this could be worded better. I'd like to have at least
a reasonable syntax pass over this before handing it off to the translation
folks! Thanks! Feel free to commit any changes directly if it's any time
in the next 8 hours, BTW. I won't mind since I'll be asleep!
Remove unused devices (*[sw]d*[bdefgh]).
Dont gzip boot_crunch. (This SAVES space on a 4 MB machine, since the
file can be segment can be paged from now.
This (with the kzip patch) makes a 4M machine boot and run again.
Margin in my build is 22 blocks and 9 inodes.
I will look at tgz'ing the help files, we need that.
multi part stuff centralized.
The final check is backwards or something so it always said it failed,
even it it didn't.
Fixed tcpip address check to not be stupid, 10.0.255.1 is legal.
being called more than once. Also fix a problem where the URL was getting
smashed in the environment by copying it to a temporary area before we
jump up and down on it.
floppy (for slip install).
2. Try to work around a bodge in the ftp extraction loop where FtpEOF() was
being called more than once. Also fix a problem where the URL was getting
smashed in the environment by copying it to a temporary area before we
jump up and down on it.
Change root.flp from a new format CPIO archive to a tar archive.
Unless we're willing to change the main tarballs from tar format to
"newc" (or, even better, "crc") cpio format, we need to use one common
one for all and that's tar for now. Install will now grab "root floppy"
from an ftp site if that's what you've got set.
Fix even more gripes from Poul's list.
P.S. As soon as I get the distfiles copied over to freefall tomorrow
morning, those of you wishing to test minimal installs over ftp should
be able to do so by grabbing the boot floppy and nothing else. Keep
your eyes open for my announcement.
Change root.flp from a new format CPIO archive to a tar archive.
Unless we're willing to change the main tarballs from tar format to
"newc" (or, even better, "crc") cpio format, we need to use one common
one for all and that's tar for now. Install will now grab "root floppy"
from an ftp site if that's what you've got set.
Fix even more gripes from Poul's list.
Root floppy (which actually may be able to go completely away at some point
soon!) is now loadable from ftp/nfs/dos as well as CDROM and (of course)
floppy.
Fix more problems on Poul's Gripe List.
Basically, this is just a simple name change. People were historically
confused by the "cpio floppy", having no clear idea as to what it was
(even if they knew what "cpio" stood for) given that the name gives
one absolutely no indication as to what it's FOR. It's about as content
free as calling it a "data floppy". Root floppy isn't much better, but
it's got some historical weight (Linux divides their set into boot and
root floppies) and is reasonably descriptive for a floppy that comprises
the beginnings of a stand-alone root filesystem.
usage is very bad.
And I found some bugs(?) in ja_JP.*/usage.hlp.
1. I have made typo.
2. Mr. Hubbard didn't change about number of virtual consoles.
Submitted by: NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@and.or.jp>
1. Fix a few bugs in the ftp installation code and implement proper
ftp and network shutdown routines.
2. Clean up the menus a fair bit - add a FreeBSD configuration menu.
3. Eliminate the last of the "chaining" - the installation now does
the most obvious thing in the most obvious cases and doesn't present
you with more menus than you were expecting. This makes it necessary to be
a little more explicit in places, but it's still less confusing.
4. Add a few more safety nets for the user. Change a few hard-and-fast
limits to warnings (it now runs as non-root, Bruce).
5. Add descriptions for all the supported ethernet cards.
6. Make the cpio floppy extract put up a menu requesting the drive you wish
to use if you have more than one; don't just always assume drive A.
Add testftp: target
ftp.c:
add more debugging output and fix a few more problems
media_strategy:
make the ftp system actually do something resembling common sense.
it now works after a fashion, although it soon falls over for some
reason.
