Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:59:13 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0 NFS Installs Message-ID: <1320692353.16024.19.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB82375.6070106@freebsd.org> References: <1320686400.16024.17.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4EB82375.6070106@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:29 -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 11/07/11 11:20, Sean Bruno wrote: > > I noted that we no longer have the disc1.iso in this release. What > > should I use to populate a NFS rootfs for netinstalls? > > > > This was what I had been using(8.2-RELEASE) to populate NFS roots for > > netinstalls. This allowed you to boot up into something that was > > self-contained. > > > > The other ISO's seem to have A LOT more stuff with symlinks pointing to > > absolute paths all over the f/s. This isn't quite as simple to copy over > > to a rootfs to use as a NFS target for booting. > > You can just copy the whole CD over and it will work fine. The CD is > basically a vanilla installed system, so you can also just set up an > install somewhere (with bsdinstall jail /path/to/nfsroot, for instance). > > Things on the CD different from a vanilla system: > - /etc/rc.local script to start the installer at boot > (copied from /usr/src/release/rc.local) > - Distfiles copied to /usr/freebsd-dist > > If you don't copy the distfiles, bsdinstall will automatically download > them, but you probably don't want to do that every time. > -Nathan Hah! Yes ... this is absolutely correct. I'm netbooting VMs now, excellent. Sean
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