Feature #14887: Add an appropriately named file to install images to indicate what they are - pfSense - pfSense bugtracker

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Feature #14887

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Add an appropriately named file to install images to indicate what they are

Added by Steve Wheeler about 1 year ago. Updated 12 months ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

High

Assignee:

Brad Davis

Category:

Installer

Target version:

2.7.2

Start date:

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Plus Target Version:

23.09.1

Release Notes:

Default

Description

If you have written a number of images to USB sticks it can be hard to know which image is actually on any particular stick.

As part of the build process create a file in the FAT partition on the image with to identify the image.

So perhaps: 'pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.7.0-RELEASE-amd64.txt' 'pfSense-plus-memstick-serial-23.09-DEVELOPMENT-amd64-20230821-0600.txt'

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Updated by Christopher Cope about 1 year ago

I think this is a good idea. Perhaps also making the disk label reflect the version.

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Updated by Steve Wheeler about 1 year ago

Status changed from New to In Progress

Seeing this is 2.7.1 images now but all three file names are added:

steve@steve-NUC9i9QNX:/media/steve/PFSENSE$ ls
LICENSE.txt
pfSense-CE-memstick-2.7.1-RC-amd64-20231107-1622.txt
pfSense-CE-memstick-adi-2.7.1-RC-amd64-20231107-1622.txt
pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.7.1-RC-amd64-20231107-1622.txt
README.txt

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Updated by Steve Wheeler about 1 year ago

In fact the file seem to be added cumulatively. The memstick-vga image only has the correct named txt file. ADI image has two files. memstick-serial has all 3.

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