Re: Automated installations

Chris, excellent reply. Thanks & best regards Nils Valentin Quoting Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-)

Re: Automated installations

Hi George, cool reply. Thank you. ;-) That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically

Automated installations

Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___

Booting into an installed software raid system

Hello FreeBSD users, I am happilly installing FreeBSD systems (remotely), however there is one thing which I would like to get solved, hopefully the one or the other can help me out. Anyway here the story goes: I have setup a sample FreeBSD system (Software Raid 1) on the devices /dev/ad2 and /d

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hi Andrew, Andreas and Eric, Thanks for the replies. I am done for today ;-) (or so) I learned again that sometimes it is important to know how to search ;-). Oviously I followed the wrong hints in the first place. Thanks for the many links and tips. I am definitely save from now on. I will gi

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hi Eric, Thanks for the reply. I have now a better understanding whats possible with FreeBSD. One question (last one) which I could not find an answer to in the online manual is : How would you do a Dual or multi OS boot machine f.e. with Windows on the first disk, first slice, first partitio

Re: Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hello, Because it instinctively (without the MBR boot manager) looks for /boot/kernel/kernel in the first partition of the first active slice on the first drive. But I have choosen to install the Boot loader. ;-o ... 1) I wouldnt mind on which partition "/boot" or "/" sits or what its n

Filesystem layout with sperated /boot partition

Hello FreeBSD Fans, I wanted to create a new system and was thinking about the following layout. Size | Mountpoint | Device name | File system 100M /boot /dev/ad2s1a UFS2+S 1024MB --- /dev/ad2s1b SWAP 15GB / /dev/ad2s1c UFS2 I want to put /boot on its own partition, but somehow I dont have a lot

Re: Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer

Hi Erik, I just wanted to say thank you for pointing me into the right direction. Turns out, I had a somewhat skewed understanding what "newfs" is for. I understand now that those options noexec and nosuid are to be passed to the mount command and the quota options must be enabled in the kernel

Passing options to Newfs in the FreeBSD installer

Hello FreeBSD Fans ;-), I have a probably simple question,which kept me busy for several days by now. I have a few years experience with Linux and would like to extend my knowledge now to the BSD*s. Hopefully my question is not too stupid so that somebody can point me into the correct direction.