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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:48:34 -0500
From:      Rich Goodson <rgoodson@p-inet.net>
To:        'Rohit Grover ' <rgrover@panasas.com>, "'freebsd-config@freebsd.org '" <freebsd-config@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: sysinstall in mfsroot.flp
Message-ID:  <3239C74599195C4D911085B3C2AF66EE20ABA3@duroc.p-inet.com>

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 oopsie.

what I meant to say was,
using the sysinstall in 4.2-release, I was only able to get around the
prompt by setting TryRTSOL=YES.  setting TryRTSOL=NO still gave me the IPv6
prompt and I spent much time looking through the source code trying to
figure out if I had the right variable.  finally, I tried setting it to yes
and found that the install script would simply search for an IPv6 server
and, not finding one, would time out.  then I added a line that read

chflags noschg /etc/rc.conf

to my custom package post script to prevent sysinstall from adding the IPv6
stuff to the rc.conf file I had just added in the package.

this probably isn't technically the correct way to do it, but it was the
only way I could figure out to get a completely automated install.

 -rich goodson


-----Original Message-----
From: Rohit Grover
To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org
Sent: 7/30/2001 12:06 PM
Subject: sysinstall in mfsroot.flp

Hello,

I need to install freebsd on a large cluster of machines. I am using
pxe boot to do this. It essentially sets up your machine to download
a kernel and an mfs_root over the network. My mfsroot is a
superset of mfsroot.flp from the freebsd distribution. In
mfsroot.flp, the /stand directory contains a bunch of executables
hardlinked to the same file. 

a> I'd like to know how this executable was created. 

I am using sysinstall to setup my machines. Since I don't want my
install procedure to be interactive, I am running sysinstall in batch
mode (I have an install.cfg which directs its execution). Within
install.cfg, I have the following at the top: 'noninteractive=YES'.
Inspite of this, right after sysinstall begins to run, it asks me if
i'd like to setup IPV6. I don't want to use IPV6 and I'd like to get
around this prompt.

b> Does anyone know how to get around the IPV6 prompt in sysinstall?


regards,
Rohit Grover.

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