Re: Automated installations

Chris, excellent reply. Thanks best regards Nils Valentin Quoting Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-)

Re: Automated installations

Hi George, cool reply. Thank you. ;-) That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically

Automated installations

Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin

Booting into an installed software raid system

Hello FreeBSD users, I am happilly installing FreeBSD systems (remotely), however there is one thing which I would like to get solved, hopefully the one or the other can help me out. Anyway here the story goes: I have setup a sample FreeBSD system (Software Raid 1) on the devices /dev/ad2 and

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hi Eric, Thanks for the reply. I have now a better understanding whats possible with FreeBSD. One question (last one) which I could not find an answer to in the online manual is : How would you do a Dual or multi OS boot machine f.e. with Windows on the first disk, first slice, first

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hi Andrew, Andreas and Eric, Thanks for the replies. I am done for today ;-) (or so) I learned again that sometimes it is important to know how to search ;-). Oviously I followed the wrong hints in the first place. Thanks for the many links and tips. I am definitely save from now on. I will

Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer

Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days by now. I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my knowledge now to the BSD*s. Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me into the correct direction.

Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer

Hi Erik, I just wanted to say thank you for pointing me into the right direction. Turns out, I had a somewhat skewed understanding what newfs is for. I understand now that those options noexec and nosuid are to be passed to the mount command and the quota options must be enabled in the kernel

Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hello FreeBSD Fans, I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. Size | Mountpoint | Device name | File system 100M /boot /dev/ad2s1a UFS2+S 1024MB --- /dev/ad2s1b SWAP 15GB / /dev/ad2s1c UFS2 I want to put /boot on its own partition, but somehow I dont have a

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hello, snip Because it instinctively (without the MBR boot manager) looks for /boot/kernel/kernel in the first partition of the first active slice on the first drive. But I have choosen to install the Boot loader. ;-o ... 1) I wouldnt mind on which partition /boot or / sits or what its