From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 13:49:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tvol.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA7714F67 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbauman@wgate.com) Received: from hf.eng.tvol.net (hf.eng.tvol.net [10.32.1.12]) by mail.tvol.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) with SMTP id QAA11625; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:43:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199910262043.QAA11625@mail.tvol.com> X-Sender: bbauman@mail.tvol.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:49:14 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Bruce Bauman Subject: sysinstall/install.cfg questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been beating my head against a wall for several hours trying to automate FreeBSD 3.3 installation. Whenever I try it, I get a warning dialog saying Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b: Device not configured. I then get an error saying "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0s1a  - Command returned status 1. After this, I am hosed. What am I doing wrong?

I''ve created an mfsroot floppy with an install.cfg file as follows:

# This is the installation configuration file for a TICS base installation
# Turn on extra debugging.
debug=yes
################################
# My host specific data
hostname=tics1
domainname=eng.tvol.net
nameserver=10.32.2.79
defaultrouter=10.0.0.1
ipaddr=10.32.32.1
netmask=255.0.0.0
################################
################################
# Which installation device to use
ftp=ftp://builder2.eng.tvol.net
netDev=fxp0
mediaSetCDROM
################################
################################
# Select which distributions we want.
dists= bin des X331bin X331cfg X331lib X331prog X331set X331VG16 X331nest X331vfb X331fnts X331f100 X331fcyr X331fscl X331fnon sinclude
distSetCustom
################################
################################
# Now set the parameters for the partition editor on sd0.
disk=wd0
partition=exclusive
bootManager=none
diskPartitionEditor
diskPartitionWrite
################################
################################
# All sizes are expressed in 512 byte blocks!
#
# A 64MB root partition, followed by a 800MB swap partition, followed by
# a 100MB /var, a 400 MB /usr, and a /usr/tvol using all the remaining space
#
wd0s1-1=ufs 131072 /
wd0s1-2=swap 1638400 none
wd0s1-3=ufs 204800 /var
wd0s1-4=ufs 409600 /home
wd0s1-5=ufs 819200 /usr
# The following entry uses the remainder of the disk
wd0s1-6=ufs 0 /usr/tvol
# Let's do it!
diskLabelEditor
# OK, everything is set. Do it!
installCommit
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