How can i test your 'redux' ? I found that : http://www.hiqu.biz/ thanks for your replies
Cheers, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY www.mouedine.net On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:31:52 -0700, Nick Bender <nben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, OpenBSD Geek <open...@e-solutions.re> > wrote: >> Hi, >> I read OpenBSD FAQ at >> [url]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/fr/faq4.html#site[/url] >> I understood well, that install.site/ Upgrade.site and of course >> SiteXX.tgz is enabled at the end of the installation. >> >> My question, i boot on 4.7 RELEASE, choose "Install". >> Is it possible to have an "true automatic installation" for example don't >> need to put mygate, myname, "root password" ... put all the answers in a >> script ? And so have an install without any interaction with the user ? >> >> I suppose not possible ? because all of that are in the "install.sub" >> script (from bsd.rd) > > You could have a look at http://nbender.com/install.netboot/install.html > which > is no longer current and was brittle and difficult to use. > > I am currently working on the next version which is much better - it meets > all your requirements. I'm calling it redux and I'm including the readme > below. > > What's left to do is additional testing, documentation, and updating for > any > changes in 4.8 (it is working now against 4.7). > > -N > > ======================================================== > > Welcome to redux, an OpenBSD automated installation framework. > > redux enhances the standard OpenBSD installation procedure by > enabling the following functionality: > > 1. Record all choices made during an installation. > 2. Enable an automated installation using recorded choices. > 3. Allow interactive revision of a previously recorded > installation session. > 4. Provide support for network based fully automated > installation using only tools provided by OpenBSD. > > redux is ditributed as a Makefile, a set of patches to the > standard installation scripts and a small number of additional > installation scripts. Building the entire source tree is not > required as redux uses an existing ditribution as the starting > point. By default it assumes that the OpenBSD source tree is > loaded in /usr/src and that the installation CD is mounted on > /mnt (see the top of the makefile to adjust these locations). > The output of the make process is a modified installation > ramdisk which can be booted using pxeboot. The ramdisk could > also be used to construct a boot CD which will be supported > in a future release. > > An effort has been made to minimize the changes to the default > scripts to minimize ongoing maintenance as the base system > evolves. A patch to the standard pxeboot program is also > provided which enables additional network boot functionality > for the i386 and amd64 architectures. redux has been tested on > the i386 and amd64 architectures but should be usable on other > architectures.
