Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:22:52 +0530 From: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> To: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre <egoitz@ramattack.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: about unattended installation Message-ID: <CAPTAQB%2Bx8o190r9jGmXPOA7DSzxChzifKpMqNySWShakBS7BVw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40FD5C3B-CF8B-4376-BA6B-9F90747CFFAF@ramattack.net> References: <40FD5C3B-CF8B-4376-BA6B-9F90747CFFAF@ramattack.net>
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Won't be able to help you much, but bsdinstall seems to be using gpart rather than fdisk. This page has a nice explanation on how to use gpart: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html As for sysinstall, it's not being mainitned officially, but http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ is using sysinstall Amitabh On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre < egoitz@ramattack.net> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > One little question… I'm trying to have ready our new unattended FreeBSD > installation system. Until now, I have been using Sysinstall scripting file > but now with 9.1 out I think it's moment to start using BSDInstaller in the > unattended installation process. I have seen the new installer, works > basically like an script…. my real question is… before I did in install.cfg > something like : > > ################################ > disk=da0 > partition=all > bootManager=standard > diskPartitionEditor > > ################################ > > da0s1-1=ufs 3072000 / > da0s1-2=swap 8096000 none > da0s1-3=ufs 20485760 /var 1 > da0s1-4=ufs 30720760 /usr 1 > da0s1-5=ufs 0 /expert 1 > diskLabelEditor > > ################################ > > Now I assume there's no way of getting this same through any command like… > 'bsdinstall partedit _______________________' am I wrong??. So I assume all > should be done by hand like this example of the Handbook : > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 > # fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk > # bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it. > # bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created and add any > partitions. > # mkdir -p /1 > # newfs /dev/da1s1e # Repeat this for every partition you created. > # mount /dev/da1s1e /1 # Mount the partition(s) > # vi /etc/fstab # Add the appropriate entry/entries to your /etc/fstab. > > In the auto script…. > > am I wrong?. If the answer is yes… could you point me to some > documentation in order to be able to complete all this doc. Apart from all > this… is Sysinstall going to be maintained in parallel?. > > Thank you very much, > Best regards! > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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