Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:05:41 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> To: Ed <Ed.Braaten@intel.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030618200541.A40468@bofh.enst.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com>; from Ed.Braaten@intel.com on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:48:17PM -0700 References: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:48:17PM -0700, Ed wrote: > The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution > techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config > file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy. > We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the > install.cfg from the bootable CD. I've found other folks asking > the same question, but to date no answers... sysinstall tries to read /install.cfg when starting, so you just need to put your customized install.cfg on the gzipped MFS root filesystem where sysinstall itself resides. I'm using this from a PXE boot but it should work from a CD as well. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr
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