Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:48:39 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can sysinstall be run interactively to install onto a second drive? Message-ID: <20090227174839.GA44084@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <325452.421235756630247.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <23337311.401235756340065.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <325452.421235756630247.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: > Can I run sysinstall on a live system, booted say from ad0 and use it to install a new OS onto a second drive, say ad1? I'm trying to do something like this: > > sysinstall configFile=install.cfg loadConfig > > where I have the target drive identified in the sysinstall script, but it doesn't seem to like what I'm trying to do. > > Basically what I need to do is given a FreeBSD distribution, I want an automated procedure I can run on a system to build a new system with a specific set of packages and other customizations we need. We have this setup now using a PXE boot server, but I'd like something I can run interactively that doesn't require a boot server. > If I understand you, I think the answer is yes. You can certainly start sysinstall on a running system. The only thing you can't do is have it write to mounted disk space. I don't think that is your intent, so there should be no problem. Just be careful when you specifiy devices to write to. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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