Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:06:18 +0000 From: falbu@amnesty.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Custom installation using boot.flp (2.88) Message-ID: <OF51B535BA.DC90FCDD-ON802569F4.0044CE3A@amnesty.org>
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Hello list,
Background:
I am using FreeBSD 4.1 and I have to perform the same installation on
multiple servers with identical hardware.
I am trying to use the sysinstall feature, that is to have a customized
install.cfg in the root folder.
The resources I found so far, which are somehow related to this subject,
were:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ (Thanks to Alfred Perlstein)
I have managed so far to add it to the floppy image msfroot.flp with the
following procedure:
cp /dist/floppies/msfroot.flp /tmp
vnconfig vn0 /tmp/mfsroot.flp
mount /dev/vn0 /mnt
cp /mnt/msfroot.gz /tmp
umount /mnt
vnconfig -u vn0
gunzip /tmp/msfroot.gz
vnconfig vn0 /tmp/msfroot
mount /dev/vn0 /mnt
and copy now the customized install.cfg to the root in /mnt
Problem:
I was trying to do the same for boot.flp (the 2.88 MB image), so that I
can burn a bootable CD with it.
However, when I mount boot.flp using the procedure described above, I can
see that the contents of it is quite different.
Question:
What is the structure of boot.flp and how can I add a file to it in the
same way I did with msfroot.flp?
I couldn't find any documentation about how to modify boot.flp.
Many thanks,
Florentin Albu
Client-Server Systems Manager
falbu@amnesty.org
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