On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > The other approach would be to just splat an install CD onto a flash > disk, eg.. > > fdisk -BI /dev/da0 > bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 > newfs -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -O1 -U /dev/da0s1 > mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt > cd /mnt > tar zxf /dev/acd0 > umount /mnt > > ... actually that won't work because sysinstall doesn't know how to > mount UFS partitions to read dist files :( > > I did look at adding that when I did the patch for FAT partitions but > it's more complex (I wasn't sure of the canonical way to find them.. > Easiest would be to look in /dev I guess)
As part of this I wrote a patch that teaches sysinstall how to load install.cfg from a CDROM or DOS partition (eg USB stick). I just submitted a PR but haven't got a number yet, here is the patch.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/sysinstall-cfg-menu.diff Currently I still use DVD for the actual install.. I have booted a sysinstall (I extracted it from mfsroot.gz into /sbin and did 'set init_path=/sbin/sysinstall in the loader), however I haven't fully tested it as I ran out of time. The problem is that unless you boot sysinstall as init it goes into "maintenance" mode and will not install stuff properly - by design. If anyone is interested in hacking on this sort of stuff feel free to get it touch with me :) -- 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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