Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-06-04 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
Hi, could you please send me those installers you have written? I would like to write up mine and I dont have an idea how to do that. Your scripts would really helped me a lot. Be so kind and please send me to like attachment or to miklosovic.free...@gmail.com god bless you :) jpaetzel wrote

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 06 March 2010 8:28:54 am Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'd also like to mention John saying you can build a custom mfsroot to use > additional tools during install...I go a different tack on this. I'm a huge > fan of python, and like to use it for installers. Rather than build a custom > m

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:41:30 Garrett Cooper wrote: > (Attempts to avoid shoe flying in his direction from randi@ :/), > > FWIW, sysinstall(8) is a good starter tool and it has a lot of the > information that you need in order to complete an install (especially > if you're doing it from scra

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 07:01:00 John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday 04 March 2010 4:33:29 pm David Wolfskill wrote: >> > For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD >> > machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 05 March 2010 07:01:00 John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 4:33:29 pm David Wolfskill wrote: > > For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD > > machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e.g., one can act as a > > fallback if an attempted software

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-05 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 04 March 2010 4:33:29 pm David Wolfskill wrote: > For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD > machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e.g., one can act as a > fallback if an attempted software upgrade proves to have been ill-timed. > > In the past, I'v

Scripting sysinstall(8) to create & use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-04 Thread David Wolfskill
For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD machines to have at least 2 bootable slices -- e.g., one can act as a fallback if an attempted software upgrade proves to have been ill-timed. In the past, I've done this manually; while a bit tedious & fairly "target-rich" with