Re: autoinstall with local file

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:17:57 +0100 Sebastien Marie > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:14:16AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > I would be very surprised to hear that people are using > > vnconfig+mount+vnconfig+mount, to add such a file. Hi Sebastien, Robert, Theo, Theo, everyone,

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:01:36 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > [...] > > That is yet another example of interactive use, of an installer > feature designed for NON-INTERACTIVE USE. > > I feel like we're being pushed to support a set of use cases which > are not core

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:06:35 + Robert Peichaer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > The installer looks at the filesystem provided by bsd.rd itself, not > the filesystem on disk. > Thanks. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 07:21:12PM GMT, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Given that there is no official supported way to put an > > auto_upgrade.conf onto an existing bsd.rd, what would be a suggested > > way to achieve the same end result - in this case, an automated > > non-interactive, off-line

Re: autoinstall with local file

> Given that there is no official supported way to put an > auto_upgrade.conf onto an existing bsd.rd, what would be a suggested > way to achieve the same end result - in this case, an automated > non-interactive, off-line upgrade? Hack up a solution however you like. But understand it isn't

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:14:16AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > I would be very surprised to hear that people are using > vnconfig+mount+vnconfig+mount, to add such a file. I am still using this (unsupported) method for auto_upgrading all openbsd hosts I administrate. As all are running

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:14:16PM GMT, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > > > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > > > > >

Re: autoinstall with local file

> On my actual disk at / I have auto_upgrade.conf and when I start the > upgrade process at boot, I press s. > This will allow me to mount /dev/wd0a mnt; cp mnt/auto_upgrade .; autoinstall That is yet another example of interactive use, of an installer feature designed for NON-INTERACTIVE USE. I

Re: autoinstall with local file

> The original idea of this was to allow ... > >Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 6.0 installation program. >(I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? s ># cat <<_EOF >/auto_install.conf >> system hostname = hostA >> password for root = whateversecurepassword >> http

Re: autoinstall with local file

On 13 January 2017 at 04:20, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > /auto_upgrade.conf > or > file://auto_upgrade.conf > or >

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:14:16AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > > > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > > > > >

Re: autoinstall with local file

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > > > /auto_upgrade.conf > > or > > file://auto_upgrade.conf > > or > >

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > /auto_upgrade.conf > or > file://auto_upgrade.conf > or > file:auto_upgrade.conf

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an > auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: > > /auto_upgrade.conf > or > file://auto_upgrade.conf > or > file:auto_upgrade.conf

autoinstall with local file

The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: /auto_upgrade.conf or file://auto_upgrade.conf or file:auto_upgrade.conf do not work. Is this still a "watch this space!" feature? -- Edward