From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 10:41:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71987106567C for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D388FC16 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-30-187.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.30.187]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAIAf2u4005224 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:11:03 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:11:01 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B502B@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B505B@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B5102@polaris.maxiscale.com> In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F23B5102@polaris.maxiscale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1794671.2V6Ung58dz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200811182111.02367.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Peter Steele Subject: Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:41:08 -0000 --nextPart1794671.2V6Ung58dz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 (speaking from limited experience :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1794671.2V6Ung58dz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJIpu+5ZPcIHs/zowRApDeAJ4x3xNOLUf/33N0aGta0ULeiz+mrACggSuU nweLMjr2TvtUoDxRqgljoUw= =+jMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1794671.2V6Ung58dz--