From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 17:14:40 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 0531F1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from arcturus.maxiscale.com (arcturus.maxiscale.com [76.231.178.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AE08FC18 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:14:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1227114878-1e2300010000-P5m3U7 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.100.1.25:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from polaris.maxiscale.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arcturus.maxiscale.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1E0BB2FF5C for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from polaris.maxiscale.com (polaris.maxiscale.com [10.100.1.24]) by arcturus.maxiscale.com with ESMTP id yENPzQDY62bXXu8G for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:38 -0800 (PST) X-ASG-Whitelist: Client Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-ASG-Orig-Subj: RE: What are proper install.cfg for configuring multiple slices? MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:14:37 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CA25@polaris.maxiscale.com> In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240C97F@polaris.maxiscale.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: What are proper install.cfg for configuring multiple slices? Thread-Index: AclJxZ3MGVGFCUBhRhG5VKk+2wbncQAk/eGw References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240C97F@polaris.maxiscale.com> From: "Peter Steele" To: X-Barracuda-Connect: polaris.maxiscale.com[10.100.1.24] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1227114879 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at maxiscale.com Subject: RE: What are proper install.cfg for configuring multiple slices? 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: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:14:40 -0000 >I want to do an automated sysinstall through an install.cfg script and >the script partition the install disk into three slices. I've been going >through various tests trying to figure out what the proper directives >are but I haven't had much luck, and I can't find any good examples. After a lot of experimenting, my impression is that sysinstall simply doesn't support multiple slice installations. It works to a point, but I get some unexpected errors, e.g. Unable to make device node for /dev/ad0s1a in /dev and after the partitioning is complete, there are funky entries under /dev: /dev/ad0c /dev/ad0cs1 /dev/ad0cs2 /dev/ad0cs3 /dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad0s2 /dev/ad0s3 There should be entries such as /dev/ad0s1a and so on, but these do not get created. I've been unable to find even one example of how to formulate multiple partitions in install.cfg, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right, based on the sysinstall docs. Does anyone have any experience with this?