On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 02:27:56 +0000 Raf Czlonka <rczlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:02:23PM GMT, Joshua Smith wrote:
>
> > Hello misc@,
>
> Hi Joshua,
>
> > Looking around the man pages for 5.6 and -current it doesn't seem like
> > it, but is it possible to perform an autoinstall/autoupgrade with out
> > utilizing pxe and an http server.
> >
> > I would like to put the autoinstall/autoupgrade file on a usbkey or
> > embed it on a custom cd.
>
> Well, probably not the way you have in mind (i.e. full autoinstall) as
> you still have to point the installer to the "{install,upgrade}.conf"
> manually: i.e. choose (A) for autoinstall, it'll then fail, escape to
> shell, mount the disk with your config file, go back to the installer
> and point it to the file - the rest of the installation/upgrade is then
> fully automatic.
>
> I use a 3-line (that includes a keyboard layout) 'upgrade.conf' to
> upgrade to new snapshots.
>
> Regards,
>
> Raf
>
there is a better way using rdsetroot to actually put the *.conf files in the
bsd.rd kernel itself. it was discussed previously here:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141552533922277&w=2
