thank you, thenk you, thank you :)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross <we...@connection.ca> wrote: > > dJ> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD > dJ> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know > dJ> what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, > dJ> English Documentation. > > It's undocumented (and breaks non-interactive installs) so I ended up > going through the source to find the answer for myself a while ago. > > The option you want is: > > distDoc=#### > > Where the #### is a bitfield for which versions of the doc packages > you want installed. Also the bitfield must be in _decimal_, not 0x## > format, or it won't correctly select what you want. You need to view > version 1.75 or higher of dist.h (from sysinstall's source) to get the > full listing. URL: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dist.h?rev=1.75.2.1.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain > > 0 (zero) disables installation. 16 is english. > > *** WARNING/RANT: If you use any of the "distSetxxxxxx" (eg: > distSetKernDeveloper) options to select what to install, it doesn't > matter what you've selected above - you _will_ be prompted with a menu > to select a doc package upon running sysinstall. (Those options reset > distDoc option above). > > Non-interactive sysinstall is effectively broken in FreeBSD 8.0 > distribution disks. (There is a way around it, but it's a pain in the > butt) > > That being said: sysinstall has been patched in source last month (Feb > 2010), so should be good for 8.1, with the default of no docs > installed if "nonInteractive=yes" is set in your sysinstall.cfg file. > > > R. > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"