On Friday 27 April 2007 08:15, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > I'm having a difficult time developing a scripted install using > sysinstall, as my target hardware is not sufficiently uniform, > hostnames vary, etc. The sysinstall documentation implies that > alternatives are available, and that sysinstall is not really > supported any more. Where can I find these alternate installers? Do > they have better support for scripted installations? > > Is it possible to perform the installation manually from the mfsroot > image? If so, I guess I could develop a shell script that performs > the installation steps.
You can get sysinstall to do most of the work for you and then fix things up after the fact by running a script. My install.cfg does a basic install and then untar's an image over the top which I created by doing an installworld into a chroot and installing ports into. Unfortunately you can't easily alter rc.conf because sysinstall overwrites it thinking it is an old copy. (You end up with your entries commented out). I've been working on a patch for sysinstall so you can specify it merge entries together without uncommenting the old ones but I haven't finished it yet. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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