install.cfg disklabel customization question
I would like to be able to do the following 1. Create a / partition of x size 2. Create a swap partition of x size 3. Create a /usr partition of x size 4. Create a ufs partition of the rest of the disk but it is not mounted at boot. What I have thus far is: # label disk 1 # IDE ad0s2-1=ufs 3969000 / ad0s2-2=swap 3969000 none ad0s2-3=ufs 3969000 /usr ad0s2-4=ufs 0 /usr100 Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? Or even better How can I create the ad0s2-4 (ad0s2f after boot) label but have sysinstall not newfs it during netboot? Any ideas would be great.. Curtis ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question
Curtis Almond wrote: Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? Edit /etc/fstab and add the 'noauto' flag to the appropriate line. Something like this: /dev/ad0s2f /usr100 ufs rw,noauto 2 2 Or even better How can I create the ad0s2-4 (ad0s2f after boot) label but have sysinstall not newfs it during netboot? You shouldn't need to recreate the disk or partition labels every time you reboot, unless you are wiping and re-installing most of the disk each time. If you're using sysinstall(8) to do an automatic install as part of your netboot process, then as far as I can tell, there's no way using the scripted interface to tell it to create a UFS partition but not newfs or mount it -- although that's easy enough using sysinstall interactively. I'd be thinking more along the lines of ditching sysinstall(8) entirely for that purpose and using fdisk(8), bsdlabel(8) and newfs(8) directly. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:23:05 -0600, Curtis Almond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to do the following > > 1. Create a / partition of x size > 2. Create a swap partition of x size > 3. Create a /usr partition of x size > 4. Create a ufs partition of the rest of the disk but it is not mounted at > boot. > > What I have thus far is: > # label disk 1 > # IDE > ad0s2-1=ufs 3969000 / > ad0s2-2=swap 3969000 none > ad0s2-3=ufs 3969000 /usr > ad0s2-4=ufs 0 /usr100 > > Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? Don't put it in /etc/fstab. Then you can use mount(8) to mount it when you need to. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: install.cfg disklabel customization question
Good suggestion on using bsdlabel. Unfortunately I am required to use FreeBSD 4.6.2 which does not contain this utility and disklabel requires one to invoke an editor to define the new label. What I resorted to doing was having netboot create /usr100 and then later overwrite the /etc/fstab via an installation package that sets noauto for the label. Curtis On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:38:19 +, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curtis Almond wrote: > > > Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time? > > Edit /etc/fstab and add the 'noauto' flag to the appropriate line. > Something like this: > > /dev/ad0s2f /usr100 ufs rw,noauto 2 2 > > > Or even better > > How can I create the ad0s2-4 (ad0s2f after boot) label but have > > sysinstall not newfs it during netboot? > > You shouldn't need to recreate the disk or partition labels every time > you reboot, unless you are wiping and re-installing most of the disk > each time. > > If you're using sysinstall(8) to do an automatic install as part of your > netboot process, then as far as I can tell, there's no way using the > scripted interface to tell it to create a UFS partition but not newfs or > mount it -- although that's easy enough using sysinstall interactively. > > I'd be thinking more along the lines of ditching sysinstall(8) entirely > for that purpose and using fdisk(8), bsdlabel(8) and newfs(8) directly. > >Cheers, > >Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor > School Rd > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone > Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK > > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
