Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:29:09 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 NFS Installs Message-ID: <4EB82375.6070106@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1320686400.16024.17.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1320686400.16024.17.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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On 11/07/11 11:20, Sean Bruno wrote: > I noted that we no longer have the disc1.iso in this release. What > should I use to populate a NFS rootfs for netinstalls? > > This was what I had been using(8.2-RELEASE) to populate NFS roots for > netinstalls. This allowed you to boot up into something that was > self-contained. > > The other ISO's seem to have A LOT more stuff with symlinks pointing to > absolute paths all over the f/s. This isn't quite as simple to copy over > to a rootfs to use as a NFS target for booting. You can just copy the whole CD over and it will work fine. The CD is basically a vanilla installed system, so you can also just set up an install somewhere (with bsdinstall jail /path/to/nfsroot, for instance). Things on the CD different from a vanilla system: - /etc/rc.local script to start the installer at boot (copied from /usr/src/release/rc.local) - Distfiles copied to /usr/freebsd-dist If you don't copy the distfiles, bsdinstall will automatically download them, but you probably don't want to do that every time. -Nathan
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