Lamont Lucas wrote: > I recently upgraded my jumpstart server from 5.5 to 6.1 and have had > some issues getting the new jumpstart process working. > > Specifically, while using my old install.cfg, my new machines were not > being built with a kernel. > > I figured out that the sysinstall manpage is out of date and as of 6.x > there is a new distribution that needs to be installed, named kernels. > > However, even after adding that: > > ################################ > # Select which distributions we want. > dists=base kernels manpages catpages proflibs dict > distSetCustom > ################################
If you do not have a "installCommit" at the end of your install.cfg the sysinstall should fall back on the normal interactive interface and you can verify that your settings have been applied. > the kernel was still not installed. It dosen't even look like sysinstall > attempted to process it, either. I'm going through the sysinstall > source to see if it's aware of kernels, but having no luck yet. > > Has anybody successfully used a 6.x machine to build a jumpstart > server? Is there a better source for automating sysinstall info than the > manpage? > > (I originally used the freebsd.org handbook site on pxeboot, but it > was horribly out of date (4.x) and later had more luck with > http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot/article.html, which is > how I got my 5.5 machine working. I see it has been updated for > 6.x but uses a non-custom dist install set, which isn't exactly > what I want) Rather, it is being updated - it seems to be a continual process :-) let me know of useful cheats and tricks. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature