- a bootable bootfs which contains a spartan md-based `ramdisk'
filesystem, which loads the tar file image:
- instfs, which is constructed from the miniroot filesystem
and contains all installation utilities.
The current miniroot image also supersedes the former separate
{bootfs,ramdisk}.sysinst tools.
files have copyright held by people in addition to myself. (I did the
original work, they copied it, enhanced it, and added their copyright
to the derivative work.) Their approval has been given re: the license
change.
this larger is the solution we're looking for.) And make it actually work
with a larger size, rather not using the extra space we've allocated due
to not changing the geometry we disklabel it with. Do we even need to give
this a disk-like geometry, especially if it's a `floppy' with more tracks
than a real floppy has?
install.sub:
- fix interface grovelling, ifmedia support, allow ifmedia and link
to have a "none" (-> "") answer (which lets you give nothing when
a default answer is given)
- allow installing more than one set at a time, including "all" as
a synonym for all remaining sets
- mount -o async when extracting sets
makeconf.awk:
- put default "libs" section at the end rather than the start, so
you can put other "libs" in before this list
- minor cleanup
mtree.conf:
- create /kern
sparc install.md:
- MDSETS are now "kern xbase xcomp xcontrib xfont xserver"
- use /kern & kernfs (replaces dmesg)
- replace grep & cut pipe lines with sed
- replace grep hackery with sed hackery
- grep and cut are no longer required! yay!
- deal with no /usr/bin/vi -- call disklabel -i
- in md_copy_kern() link the netbsd.GENERIC we got from the kern set,
rather than the miniroot kernel
sparc miniroot list:
- no more dmesg, cut or grep
sparc ramdisk changes:
Makefile:
- `ramdiskbin.conf' is now generated by makeconf.awk
- don't use libhack's opendir, it breaks
dot.profile:
- don't assume terminal is `sun'
- set EDITOR=ed
-
list:
- instbin -> ramdiskbin to make `makeconf.awk' work
- CRUNCHSPECIAL those special dirs
- add our LIBS as necessary
libhack changes:
- if NOLIBHACKOPENDIR is set, don't build opendir.o
- Remove *.cro files and not the obsoleted *.lo files.
From Bill Studenmund commit message:
> 3) Generate .cro files rather than .lo files. .lo now is used for "local
> objects" - obj's for the host machine not the target machine.
Delete "\E)0" sequences and make ":as=\E(0:ae=\E(B:"
(some terminals use "1" for "0").
This change makes it easy to use 8-bit encodings, such as ISO8859, EUC, etc.
PR #7126.
the needed endianism of the architecture. One step towards cross-building
releases.
Not touched are newfs calls in install scripts as they run on the desired
machine and thus default correctly.
- don't use sysinst yet, it's not ready for the sparc, go back to
the old miniroot install programs.
- add these programs:
- pppd (nice to install from an SS2 with local floppy & modem only)
- bzip2 (media may be bz2'ed in the RFSN future)
- edlabel (much ligher weight than disklabel)
- expr (miniroot)
- hostname (miniroot)
- netstat (miniroot)
- sort (miniroot)
- remove these programs:
- tset (not used)
- strings (too big now)
- slattach (who uses slip these days, *really* ? see pppd addition)
- disklabel (see edlabel addition)
- shutdown (have reboot/halt already)
- sysinst (not using it yet)
- grow the install filesystem a bit more, to facilitate the new programs.
- use gordons libhack stuff, to reduce the size of the install binary.
- don't need /etc/master.passwd or the {s,}pwd.db files anymore!
- clean up dot.profile a bit.
how to get it to link here. It needs to link statically against
gnu/usr.bin/binutils/common/libcommon.a (which may be in an obj or
obj.arch directory underneath, actually).
jmc