On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:56:26PM -0800, Peter Steele typed: > >I'll have to check this out. I'm not getting anywhere with trying to > >customize mfsroot with my current approach... > > The goal we are trying to achieve btw is to make gmirror available > during an install so that the file systems are mirrored right from the > get-go, so that we can avoid having to go through the process of > converting a system as a post operation. The standard slicing/partition > commands of sysinstall do support the creation of a mirrored file system > though, so our idea was to run a script via install.cfg to take care of > fdisk/bsdlabel/gmirror phase, and then install the packages in the > normal fashion via subsequent steps in install.cfg. > > Is this something that can be done via sysinstall? If not, what's the > best alternative? This whole process is targeted to be on a PXE boot > server so we can configure our systems in a completely automated > hands-off manner. We have 200+ FreeBSD systems and we definitely need an > automated process. We already have it working fine, but without > mirroring. We can upgrade doezens of systems at a time simply by making > them boot from our PXE server. We now need to tweak this process so that > we can establish the mirrored file systems as part of the automated > install.
What I've done in the past is skip sysinstall alltogether and just boot of an NFS root. Then use custom scripts for the slicing/partitioning/ mirroring, copy a minimal system to disk and pkg_add the rest. Would be nice to do all this with install.cfg though. Please let me know when you get this working. Ruben _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
