Bug 7232 - sysinstall(8): suggestion for FreeBSD installation dialog
Summary: sysinstall(8): suggestion for FreeBSD installation dialog
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0-CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
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Reported: 1998-07-10 10:00 UTC by Andreas Klemm
Modified: 2015-11-10 09:03 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Klemm 1998-07-10 10:00:05 UTC 
I would suggest to enhance the FreeBSD syinstall program with
little but useful changes:

1) Add a menue to configure name resolving:

Currently we only ask for *one* DNS Server in the network card
installation dialogue. I'd suggest to ask for the *three* possible
DNS server. I always have to change /etc/resolv.conf manually after
a FreeBSD installation. I think this would be a simple change.

Additionally we could perhaps think about making DNS configuration
to a separate menue. We could ask the user for:

	domain name		[ dom.ain.from.tcp_ip_setup ]

	1. DNS Server		[ first.dns.server	]
	2. DNS Server		[ second.dns.server	]
	3. DNS Server		[ third.dns.server	]

	Order of name resolving clickable:

	[ ]	bind hosts (recommended)
	[ ]	hosts bind

2) Add a menue to enable and configure the automounter.
   This could be an additional submenue, that would be presented
   - in the custom installation 
   - in all other installations types if user decides, to setup
     the machine as a NFS client.

   From the Network or perhaps the new DNS setup menue we already
   know the domainname of the machine and could simply configure:

   amd_enable="YES"	# Run amd service with $amd_flags (or NO).
   amd_flags="-a /net -c 1800 -k i386 -d my.domain -l syslog /host /etc/amd.map"
					 ^^^^^^^^^ the real domain !

I think this wouldn't be hard to implement and should go into
the next -STABLE and -current release.
Comment 1 Poul-Henning Kamp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1998-07-11 09:12:35 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

Awaiting patch && committer.
Comment 2 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-10 14:02:52 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

sysinstall maintainer.
Comment 3 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-30 23:45:36 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: murray->eric

Eric is working on our installer tools now.
Comment 4 Eric Melville freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-10-01 19:56:55 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: eric->freebsd-qa

assign idle sysinstall bugs to freebsd-qa, as suggested by murray
Comment 5 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-13 14:48:45 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

Over to maintainer(s)
Comment 6 randi freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-07-14 05:39:35 UTC 
If DHCP is used, all DNS servers offered will be used. I don't really =
think we need an entirely separate menu for DNS. One option might be to =
allow comma delimited DNS servers in the current form.

I really think offering automounter is overkill.=20=
Comment 7 amvandemore 2015-02-07 04:10:39 UTC 
Can this be closed now?
Comment 8 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:03:50 UTC 
sysinstall was replaced by bsdinstall. Closing.