Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Jay Patel
Hi all, I want to know how to achieve customizing my iso for installing OpenBSD on 10 workstation with pre configured gnome. I read the FAQ about siteXX.tgz http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#site but couldn't find more resources also cant find man pages for that.is it safe to go that way or sh

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:46:45 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to know how to achieve customizing my iso for installing OpenBSD on > 10 workstation with pre configured gnome. I read the FAQ about siteXX.tgz > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#site but couldn't find more resources >

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Jay Patel
Hi Tomasz, One more question. Do i need to use the generated system.tgz with other base51.tgz,etc.tgz . etc etc . Or just syste.tgz into .img and install. Thanks, Jay.

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:16:36 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > One more question. Do i need to use the generated system.tgz with other > base51.tgz,etc.tgz . etc etc . Or just syste.tgz into .img and install. You dont need official distribution tars after you make your own tar with working

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:16:36 +0530 Jay Patel wrote: > One more question. Do i need to use the generated system.tgz with other > base51.tgz,etc.tgz . etc etc . Or just syste.tgz into .img and install. There is also the rc.firstrun script which runs once after install. Sometimes you may know that a

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Jay Patel
Hi Tomasz, ya i thoght that too. will try excluding /proc and /dev but dont know if installer will work that way. Kevin , hmm i can do one thing add PKG_PATH to local "/pksgs" and put all .tgz from ftp and can pkg_Add from rc.firstrun. Thanks, Jay.

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:23:35 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > ya i thoght that too. will try excluding /proc and /dev but dont know if > installer will work that way. I think it should because this directories (at least /dev ) are auto made at boot ( i am not shore fast searching didnt get

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:23:35 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > ya i thoght that too. will try excluding /proc and /dev but dont know if > installer will work that way. One more thing if you have 10 equal pcs there should be no problem but if you have different disc that are supported by the

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Wesley
Hi, Le 2012-06-07 18:44, Tomasz Marszal a écrit : On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:23:35 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: Hi Tomasz, ya i thoght that too. will try excluding /proc and /dev but dont know if installer will work that way. One more thing if you have 10 equal pcs there should be no problem but if

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:35:33 +0200 Tomasz Marszal wrote: > Will you have to boot all 10 pcs and do the install process on them or > there are some magic scripts that redistribute your img or tar file via a > network. I know this is possible for Linux but never done it for BSD. Do > this magic scri

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Yaifo is quite handy but unsupported too.

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Jay Patel
Yes Tomasz i have to boot all 10 pcs and install on them i dont have any magic script for that. that's why i was going for siteXX.tgz method so i can create iso and use if for install. also thanks kevin and wesley for inputs. Thanks, Jay

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 04:46:45PM +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to know how to achieve customizing my iso for installing OpenBSD on > 10 workstation with pre configured gnome. I read the FAQ about siteXX.tgz > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#site but couldn't find more resour

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:31:52 +0530, Jay Patel wrote: > Yes Tomasz i have to boot all 10 pcs and install on them i dont have any > magic script for that. that's why i was going for siteXX.tgz method so i > can create iso and use if for install. Than is uncool! You can try to do it via network ( if t

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:30:49PM +0200, Tomasz Marszal wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE > http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/ (this is for Linux but BSD config > will be pretty much the same ) > > simply type "pxe boot

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Bender
> I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, > but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D > I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, > but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D I developed a very crude version of a fully autom

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Tomasz Marszal
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:37:04 -0400, Jiri B wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:30:49PM +0200, Tomasz Marszal wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE >> http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/ (this is for Linux but BSD >> config >>

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-08 Thread russell
On 06/07/2012 04:21 PM, Tomasz Marszal wrote: Yes i red it as well as the FreeBSD handbook section about PXE. So my idea is to install bsd system then install gnome then tar the installed system make img from tar. Later configure dhcp and tftp and nfs on a PXE server. Put bsd.rd and other files

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-06-07, Tomasz Marszal wrote: >> OpenBSD FAQ has enough info about PXE. In all honesty just pxeboot(8) should be enough if you just want to boot a bsd.rd type kernel to install from. > Yes i red it as well as the FreeBSD handbook section about PXE. You can probably ignore a lot of the fr

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-08 Thread Jay Patel
Hi Stuart, I read rc.firsttime man page seems nice approach to keep everything updated with pkg_add. Thanks, Jay.