https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246047
Bug ID: 246047
Summary: Much-needed components missing from standard FreeBSD
installer
Product: Base System
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com
Hi,
Time and again, I have run into situations where I needed some components in
the FreeBSD installer, but they are not there yet. I hope folks will look at my
PR seriously and consider bundling in those missing parts in the standard
FreeBSD installer.
Mainly, I need 3 packages pre-built into the installer. They are as under :
1) rsync - for times when I do not need to do a fresh install, but simply rsync
from a backup into a freshly created / filesystem.
2) linuxfdisk - this owes primarily to FreeBSD's stubborn refusal to switch off
EBR_COMPAT in the default kernel. If linuxfdisk is present in the installer,
the user can create EBR partitions from a shell initiated in the installer.
3) e2fsprogs - it makes sense to let mkfs.ext2/ext3/ext4 and
fsck.ext2/ext3/ext4 get into the installer if linuxfdisk is already there.
Usually users like to have FreeBSD's / on UFS and other slices on Linux
filesystems because those filesystems work outside of FreeBSD as well.
I shall be glad if FreeBSD makers find my points to be viable enough for
action.
Thanks,
Manish Jain
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