10 12:19pm, Devin Teske wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:12 +, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically
generate
> much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files
that
> are, in turn
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:12 +, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate
> much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that
> are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing
he like are available). You lose
> access to your original mfsroot distribution at this point.
Thank you, Ross. Your explanation of what was happening lead me to
combine the 2nd of the 2 scripts prior to the installCommit and the
3rd script that I was running after the installCommit. The result of
the
vgc> I do this twice before the installCommit and both scripts run and load the
vgc> resulting configs successfully. I also run another script after the
vgc> InstallComit...it fails citing the script could not be found. In
vgc> troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand and doi
On 11 November 2010 12:12, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate
> much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that
> are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The scripts tha
Hi all,
Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate
much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that
are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The scripts
that are run are placed into the mfsroot in /stand and /. They
Hello all,
I would like to dynamically generate various settings that will be
placed into the install.cfg file before sysinstall executes. I am PXE
booting and have a mfsroot that contains a install.cfg with variables
that will be applicable to all installs. Inside the mfsroot is a
script
On 2 July 2010 15:48, Ross wrote:
> TT> is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with
> TT> sysinstall and its install.cfg.
>
> TT> How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ?
>
> Before the "installCommit" command you gener
TT> is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with
TT> sysinstall and its install.cfg.
TT> How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ?
Before the "installCommit" command you generally only have access to
statically compiled commands (gene
Hello,
is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with sysinstall
and its install.cfg.
How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ?
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On 21/04/10 21:59, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote:
All:
The install.cfg mechanism is pretty wicked.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a really efficient way
to provide new clients (or class of clients) an install.cfg
without rebuilding an MFSROOT image.
Possi
All:
The install.cfg mechanism is pretty wicked.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a really efficient way
to provide new clients (or class of clients) an install.cfg
without rebuilding an MFSROOT image.
At least with pxeboot(8), in TFTP-only-mode, using
dhcpd.conf(5) c
thank you, thenk you, thank you :)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross wrote:
>
> dJ> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
> dJ> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
> dJ> what command for install.cfg to configure my install
dJ> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
dJ> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
dJ> what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,
dJ> English Documentation.
It's undocumented (and breaks non-interactive instal
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, don Juan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
> what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,
> English Documentation.
&
Hi,
What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD
Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know
what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,
English Documentation.
i've found this question already posted to this forum but it's still
Hi all,
I want to try FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE unattended installation with PXE
boot using install.cfg. Currently after following some clues from
FreeBSD Handbook and some websites like
http://high5.net/index_files/freebsd_pxe_install_server.html, I tried
to do that and come with success with some
and double-quotes, but nothing is seeming to work. In
> addition to this, I have also escaped the quotes.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
I'm not familiar with install.cfg but have you tried using the full
path for your command? E.g:
command=
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:25:16 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
AN>
AN> # Now set the parameters for the partition editor on da0.
AN> disk=da0
AN> partition=all
AN> bootManager=none
try
bootManager=standard
AN> diskPartitionEditor
AN> diskPartitionWrite
try to remove d
as
created. The install.cfg I'm using is:
debug=yes
# Which installation device to use
mediaSetCDROM
# Select which distributions we want.
#dists=
#distSetCus
Hi list members,
while trying to create an unattended installation 'thing' for FreeBSD
7.1-RELEASE sysinstall brings me the following error when parsing
install.cfg:
'EBUG: dispatch: calling resword 'mediaSetFTP
''BUG: Notify: Warning: No such command '&
Hi all,
in an effort to create a jumpstart/kickstart-like environment for easy
OS deployment i, ofcourse, ran into install.cfg for FreeBSD. It works
great, but since it requires a modified image (with an inserted
install.cfg file) it's not a great option. It even needs a BSD box or
CentOS
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how could I tell sysinstall to let the user
choose the disk he want to install into and then, based on that
response, create automatically without any other question the
partitions/labels that are required.
I've seen several examples but I can't find the way to d
But when I use that I get error I can't issue that command. Is there a
speacial way to execute commands like that in install.cfg ( echo " " >>
file_on_disk_not_in_memory_filesystem )
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here a
speacial way to execute commands like that in install.cfg ( echo " " >>
file_on_disk_not_in_memory_filesystem )
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Philippe LAQUET wrote:
> I would like to know if someone has published some patch or found a
> solution to perform a automatic installation via sysinstall but with a
> remote (ftp/http/nfs) install.cfg file? I found some solutions using a
> PXE boot disk and mount via NFS but don&#
EHLO
I would like to know if someone has published some patch or found a
solution to perform a automatic installation via sysinstall but with a
remote (ftp/http/nfs) install.cfg file? I found some solutions using a
PXE boot disk and mount via NFS but don't want to put NFS shares and
Hi!
I would like to know if someone has published some patch or found a
solution to perform a automatic installation via sysinstall but with a
remote (ftp/http/nfs) install.cfg file? I found some solutions using a
PXE boot disk and mount via NFS but don't want to put NFS shares and
Hi,
I am doing network installs of FreeBSD 6.0 and I want to place the install
files in a directory that depends on the mac address of the server being
installed. In install.cfg I want to specify something like
nfs=10.0.0.1:/var/net_install/files/$MAC_ADDRESS
mediaSetNFS
package=db42-4.2.52_4
Is there some extra magic to making install.cfg work when rolling a
release? I spent a fair amount of time this weekend preparing a custom
release based off releng_6_0, and it works great but for one tiny
detail..
After the installation is 'finished' and I reboot the system witho
install using a
install.cfg script to install on multiple machines without floppies,
and without needing any interaction other than putting in the CD.
I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the
modified installation CD, or how to initiate sysinstall during the
boot proc
On 4/11/2005 6:52 AM, Todd wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg
script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without
needing any interaction other than putting in the CD.
I can create the script but don't know where to put
I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg
script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without
needing any interaction other than putting in the CD.
I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the modified
installation CD,
Hi
Im having some trouble with the system command in the install.cfg file
for autoinstalls. THe man page says the "system " command can
be used at the end of the cfg file but I cant get it to work.
I've tried.
system "/full/path/to/prog \"escsomequotes\" &
Mike,
Thanks alot for your suggestion, I'll try to put these lines to a
shell script and try to make install.cfg run them. I'll post results
soon.
John Meing
On Apr 8, 2005 5:55 PM, wizlayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
&g
On Friday 08 April 2005 02:31 am, John Meing wrote:
> Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg
> (without the rc.conf lines)
>
> command="passwd root" system
>
> which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested
> with /stand/sysinstal
Mike I also tried to use only following line in install.cfg (without
the rc.conf lines)
command="passwd root" system
which should not has mismatching quote errors (and I tested with
/stand/sysinstalld and it worked) but it didn't work when i put it in
install.cfg :((
John Meing
On Thursday 07 April 2005 08:05 am, wizlayer wrote:
>
> Okay, but that still doesn't work for the syntax... Going back
> to
>
> your original post:
> > command="echo sendmail_enable="NONE" >> /etc/rc.conf" system
>
> would at best cause mismatching quote errors (which is what I'm
> assuming you'r
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:38 am, John Meing wrote:
> Dear Mike
>
> Here are few guides i used to create this install.cfg.
>
> http://mypage.bluewin.ch/dazdaz/freebsd_sysinstall.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&apropos=0&s
>ektion=0&ma
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
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 i
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 hav
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 396900
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 02:12, Ivan Fetch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've searched the mailing lists and found others with this issue, but
> haven't found a solution yet - can someone point me in the right direction
> please?
>
> When using an install.cfg
Hello,
I've searched the mailing lists and found others with this issue, but
haven't found a solution yet - can someone point me in the right direction
please?
When using an install.cfg file with 5.2.1-RELEASE, I get:
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s
s not being unmounted cleanly.
If I remove "shutdown" from the end of my install.cfg script and replace
it with "command=/sbin/reboot \ system" then I get an error in sysinstall
about system command failing but the system reboots and the file systems
are clean.
Does anyone have a
I am attempting to set up network installs of FreeBSD 5.2.1 for a project
I am working on.
I can boot kern.flp and mfsroot.flp over the network with no problems and
do a manual install.
I can configure install.cfg to automatically set the distribution, network
card, install method and so on
Hello all,
I am trying to make an automatic install procedure of a FreeBSD 5.2.1.
I'm booting from the 5.2.1-miniiso and then I insert a floppy containing
my install.cfg. Then I select the "Load config" menuitem from sysinstall
and run the install.cfg. It then perform some network
base that has a
> large fragment & block size (to save time on fsck's and the like).
> Does anyone know how to do this via install.cfg for sysinstall?
> Is it even possible? The documentation doesn't mention it.
>
> Thanks.
Please wrap.
Custom newfs opti
how to do this via install.cfg for sysinstall? Is it
even possible? The documentation doesn't mention it.
Thanks.
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Vahric MUHTARYAN asked on Saturday January 10, 2004:
> Hi ,
>
> You can see my install.cfg output below. I can't set hostname , ip
address
> I'dont understand why ? and I red sysinstall but it's funny I cant
find any
> variable for hostname and ip address
Hi ,
You can see my install.cfg output below. I can't set hostname , ip address
I'dont understand why ? and I red sysinstall but it's funny I cant find any
variable for hostname and ip address . They are only available for
mediaSetNFS . Do I have to use install media NFS ?
unused0
with sysinstall + Local Config + install.cfg.
The only thing I found in sysinstall(8) manpage is:
partition=free
partition=all
partition=existing
partition=exclusive
partition=aNumber <--- this supposes an empty available space
Is th
I have done some experimenting with install.cfg and missed newfs with
that. I noticed that it was availble when you do with this config file.
I read (in the source) something about a argument like newfsArgs but it
was not clear on how to use this. I appricate any pointers.
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