On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: > Can I run sysinstall on a live system, booted say from ad0 and use it to > install a new OS onto a second drive, say ad1? I'm trying to do something > like this: > > sysinstall configFile=install.cfg loadConfig > > where I have the target drive identified in the sysinstall script, but it > doesn't seem to like what I'm trying to do. > > Basically what I need to do is given a FreeBSD distribution, I want an > automated procedure I can run on a system to build a new system with a > specific set of packages and other customizations we need. We have this setup > now using a PXE boot server, but I'd like something I can run interactively > that doesn't require a boot server. >
If I understand you, I think the answer is yes. You can certainly start sysinstall on a running system. The only thing you can't do is have it write to mounted disk space. I don't think that is your intent, so there should be no problem. Just be careful when you specifiy devices to write to. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
