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diff -u -r1.46 -r1.47
--- www/55.html 2014/04/09 04:26:49 1.46
+++ www/55.html 2014/04/09 04:36:14 1.47
@@ -77,7 +77,19 @@
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The installer now supports a scriptable auto-installation method.
+Installer improvements:
+
+ - The installer now supports a scriptable
+ auto-installation
+ method that enables unattended installation and upgrades using a response file.
+
- Disk images which can be written to a USB flash drive (miniroot55.fs and
+ install55.fs) are now provided for amd64 and i386.
+
- Rewritten
+ installboot(8)
+ utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms (currently
+ used by amd64 and i386 only).
+
- The installer now parses nwid's with embedded blanks correctly.
+
New/extended platforms:
@@ -259,14 +271,12 @@
Corrected handling of UTIME_OMIT.
pax(1) now sets the mode and timestamps correctly on symlinks, and makes hardlinks to symlinks when requested.
Corrected handling of shared-library destructors when libc is staticly linked.
- Disk images which can be written to a USB flash (miniroot55.fs and install55.fs) are now provided for i386 and amd64.
Corrected various disk drivers to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.
Corrected growfs(8) to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.
All CIRCLEQ uses replaced with TAILQ.
Preserve and honour changes to the OpenBSD bounds in a disklabel.
fdisk(8) now always writes a good signature when MBR is written to disk.
disklabel(8) now writes the disklabel to the correct location on non-512-byte sector devices.
- Correctly parse nwid's with embedded blanks during install.
Fix athn(4) tick calculations to eliminate excessive timeouts.
Allow disklabel(8) to set any partition, including 'C', to type UNUSED.
New sha512(1) tool to calculate and verify the SHA-512 checksums of files.
@@ -278,9 +288,6 @@
now support a new -h flag to place the checksum into a specified hash file instead of stdout.
sha256(1) and related tools now support a new -C flag that allows the verification of selected files in a checklist.
sha256(1) and related tools will now print MISSING if they encounter non-existent files in a checklist.
- Rewritten
- installboot(8)
- utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms. Currently used by i386 and amd64 platforms only.
i386 and amd64 platforms can now boot from keydisk-based softraid(4) crypto volumes.
Allow softraid(4) to work with partitions larger than 2TB.
Removed experimental RAID 4 support from softraid(4).