Bug 38610

Summary:	sysinstall(8): should be able to mount ISO images on DOS filesystems
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	nik <nik>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody) <sysinstall>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description nik freebsd_committer

2002-05-27 12:50:01 UTC

A colleague who has installed FreeBSD has suggested that if you're
doing a DOS installation, it would be easier to download the disk 1
ISO image (or the mini-ISO image) to the DOS partition, instead of
having to download the various *.xx files that make up the dists.
Getting one file is easier than having to (recursively) download a 
bunch of files.

If Sysinstall then had a "Install from ISO image on DOS partition"
option at install time, this would be useful even if the user doesn't
have a CD writer.  Sysinstall would have to mount the DOS partition,
then use the vn device to map to the ISO image (can you do that to
files on DOS partitions?), and then mount the vn device as a CD image.

Sounds plausible.

Comment 1 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer

2002-06-05 01:45:23 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa

Over to maintainer list

Comment 2 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer

2002-08-25 03:26:04 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-qa->qa

Use short names for mailing list to make searches    
using the web query form work with the shown responsible. 

This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail.

Comment 3 hiten 2003-02-03 18:06:39 UTC

This is indeed possible.  I have tested this as the following on 5.0,
and had a patch for this on my old hard drive (which unfortunately
started scratching and I lost a lot of my (FreeBSD) work... anyway)
because it's cost effective as you mention it. ;-)

	# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s2 /dos
	# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /dos/ftp/releng_5-ftp-disc1.iso
	md6
	# mount_cd9660 /dev/md6 /cdrom

I don't mind coming up with a patch again, when I find the time.
Cheers.

-- 
Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org)
http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/

Comment 4 randi freebsd_committer

2009-06-06 20:42:56 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->randi

Taking this.

Comment 5 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2013-06-29 06:52:04 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: randi->freebsd-sysinstall

back to mailing list.

Comment 6 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2015-11-10 09:07:48 UTC

sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.

Comment 7 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2015-11-10 09:12:28 UTC

sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.