Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:21 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> Subject: Re: Alternate installers for FreeBSD for unattended installation Message-ID: <200704270933.22584.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA127@svr1.irtnog.org> References: <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA127@svr1.irtnog.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart6543986.8rpFx2TRFr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 27 April 2007 08:15, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > I'm having a difficult time developing a scripted install using > sysinstall, as my target hardware is not sufficiently uniform, > hostnames vary, etc. The sysinstall documentation implies that > alternatives are available, and that sysinstall is not really > supported any more. Where can I find these alternate installers? Do > they have better support for scripted installations? > > Is it possible to perform the installation manually from the mfsroot > image? If so, I guess I could develop a shell script that performs > the installation steps. You can get sysinstall to do most of the work for you and then fix=20 things up after the fact by running a script. My install.cfg does a=20 basic install and then untar's an image over the top which I created by=20 doing an installworld into a chroot and installing ports into. Unfortunately you can't easily alter rc.conf because sysinstall=20 overwrites it thinking it is an old copy. (You end up with your entries=20 commented out). I've been working on a patch for sysinstall so you can specify it merge=20 entries together without uncommenting the old ones but I haven't=20 finished it yet. =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 --nextPart6543986.8rpFx2TRFr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGMT3K5ZPcIHs/zowRAvmBAJ0U4+B4tC6mClWTy4JQfMhBRy/v9QCeOP/K X765Lx1Gw9hKatJMZOkNq4I= =56Wj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6543986.8rpFx2TRFr--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200704270933.22584.doconnor>