From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 11:06:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C6837B404 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.enst.fr (enst.enst.fr [137.194.2.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82D243F3F for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beyssac@enst.fr) Received: from bofh.enst.fr (bofh.enst.fr [137.194.32.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "bofh.enst.fr", Issuer "ENST CA" (verified OK)) by smtp2.enst.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7956453B6C; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:05:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from enst.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bofh.enst.fr (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5II5fhQ040686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:05:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from beyssac@enst.fr) Received: (from beyssac@localhost) by enst.fr (8.12.9/8.12.7/Submit) id h5II5fmf040685; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:05:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:05:41 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: Ed Message-ID: <20030618200541.A40468@bofh.enst.fr> References: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com>; from Ed.Braaten@intel.com on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:48:17PM -0700 cc: ed@braatens.org cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:06:03 -0000 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