Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:23:04 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> Subject: Re: Creating one's own installer/mfsroot Message-ID: <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA1AE@svr1.irtnog.org> References: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA1AE@svr1.irtnog.org>
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--nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot > images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using > sysinstall)? It appears that one could develop a simplified > network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel, > newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the > usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk). You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it. > (sysinstall requires too specific a configuration for my needs, which > are focused on en masse - and zero touch - workstation and server > deployment.) sysinstall will look for an install.cfg file in the mfsroot and run it=20 so you should be able to do it that way with perhaps some small=20 modification to sysinstall. Might be less work to tweak sysinstall rather than starting from=20 scratch. This might be of interest BTW..=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html =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 --nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGQSmJ5ZPcIHs/zowRApZlAKCluB5T9E9G0lMiNQp4nAx7lq9e5ACeMwxg 8rKDorH3zPkNUNN66m40Ve8= =Y6dI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU--
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