Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:34:58 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sto@stat.duke.edu Subject: install.cfg questions/problems Message-ID: <199801291434.JAA20912@hurricane.cs.duke.edu>
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I'm attempting to automate the installation of FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE on a number of machines using sysinstall's 'install.cfg' loadable configuration file. So far, it appears to have mostly worked (and sure beats the way I used to do it!). But I'm having some problems with the disklabel portion. My disklabel section is as follows: ...... # A 96MB root partition, followed by a 0.5G swap partition, followed by # a 1G /var, and a /usr using all the remaining space on the disk # sd0s1-1=ufs 196608 / sd0s1-2=swap 1048576 none sd0s1-3=ufs 2097152 /var sd0s1-4=ufs 0 /usr # Let's do it! diskLabelEditor ...... The machine complains: WARNING: You have more than one root device set?! And proceeds to complain about the lack of swap, /var and /usr partitions. But the installation proceeds without further ado, and everything is installed as it should be. The disklabel ends up as I specified, and everything is put in the proper place. The only real problem becomes apparent when, after the machine is rebooted, the fstab looks like this: ...... # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0a /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0a /var ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0a none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 ...... This isn't really the problem it might be, as I have a post-install script I run out of pkg_add which has to massage the fstab anyway. So for now I'm working around this by having that script generate the entire fstab on the fly. Also, is there any way to specify per-interface media options non-interactively? Eg, I would like to tack on "media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" to my fxp0 interface; right now that's the only thing I have to do manually. Thanks in advance for the help! Drew PS: I've put up a minor WWW page about the virtues of install.cfg at http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/sysinstall.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590
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