Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 23:03:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Wilson MacGyver <macgyver@cylatech.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? Message-ID: <10618.821516614@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1996 01:32:18 EST." <30F751F2.B00@cylatech.com>
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> Jordan wrote.. > > 2. Take advantage of Win95's `autolaunch' on CD insertion to do > > something clever. Not exactly sure WHAT yet, but it's an idea. > > How about using it to automaticly create a boot disk? You can sort of do that now, though I guess I didn't document it enough to make it very useful. Just stick a file on the boot floppy (it can be called anything, though freebsd.cfg is the default) and run it as a `script'. Here's the script I use for installing my laptop in a fully automated fashion: # This is the installation configuration file for my laptop, fat.cdrom.com. # It is included here merely as a sort-of-documented example. # Turn on extra debugging. debug=yes # My host specific data hostname=fat.cdrom.com domainname=cdrom.com nameserver=192.216.222.3 defaultrouter=192.216.222.225 ipaddr=192.216.222.227 netmask=255.255.255.240 # Which installation device to use - ftp is pointed directly at my local # machine and the installation device is my PC CARD ethernet interface. # the "script" keyword lets mediaSetFTP know that it's being run from # a script and shouldn't prompt the user for extra details. If you *want* # it to prompt, you can pass it either "express", "novice" or "custom" # to set the level of detail for such prompting. This is a general convention # which you'll see elsewhere in this script file. ftp=ftp://time.cdrom.com/pub mediaSetFTP=script tcpInstallDevice=ze0 # Select which distributions we want. distSetUser # Now set the parameters for the partition editor. Set to use all remaining # free space (could also be "all" or "existing" to use all the disk or an # existing FreeBSD slice). Pass the script parameter to diskPartitionEditor # so it's not interactive, as described above. disk=wd0 diskSpace=free bootManager=booteasy diskPartitionEditor=script # It's bogus that we have to re-enter the label editor for each partition # we want to create, but it was easier to do it this way (from a programming # standpoint, not a user standpoint!). This assumes that slice 1 is a DOS # partition and mounts it as /dos, which is the case on my laptop. # We can also create a root partition of 20MB in size on the same pass since # it's in a different slice (s2). All sizes are expressed in 512 byte blocks! wd0s1=/dos N wd0s2=partition 40960 / diskLabelEditor=script # Now make a 20MB swap partition in the second slice. wd0s2=swap 40960 none diskLabelEditor=script # Size of 0 means allocate the rest of the space to /usr wd0s2=partition 0 /usr diskLabelEditor=script # OK, everything is set. Do it! installCommit=script Of course, this doesn't handle hardware configuration details, but that's going to require the implementation of more clever boot mechanisms anyway. Jordanhome | help
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