Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:11:01 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Subject: Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image? Message-ID: <200811182111.02367.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B5102@polaris.maxiscale.com> References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B502B@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B505B@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B5102@polaris.maxiscale.com>
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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:26:26 Peter Steele wrote:
> Is this something that can be done via sysinstall? If not, what's the
> best alternative? This whole process is targeted to be on a PXE boot
> server so we can configure our systems in a completely automated
> hands-off manner. We have 200+ FreeBSD systems and we definitely need an
> automated process. We already have it working fine, but without
> mirroring. We can upgrade doezens of systems at a time simply by making
> them boot from our PXE server. We now need to tweak this process so that
> we can establish the mirrored file systems as part of the automated
> install.
I believe you modify /usr/src/release/${ARCH}/boot_crunch.conf to do this.
I haven't actually tried though...
I think it would be possible to have a 'GEOM' menu that you can run prior t=
o=20
fdisk, label, etc that would allow you to do some basic stuff like this.
While the sysinstall code is a bit fugly it's not that difficult to hack on=
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(speaking from limited experience :)
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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