From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 00:16:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F21716A401 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C31813C4BE for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp48-243.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [121.44.48.243]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3R03VFd033640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:21 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6543986.8rpFx2TRFr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704270933.22584.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Matthew X. Economou" Subject: Re: Alternate installers for FreeBSD for unattended installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:16:43 -0000 --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--