Michael Collette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for some way to script together an automatic formatting of a hard > drive. Having a fair amount of difficulty locating some good information on > doing this. > > For example, let's say there's an unknown IDE drive that's at least 40G in > size. On that drive I want to create 1 partition with 3 labels. 2 of the > labels get 10G, and the 3rd gets whatever is left. > > My reason for doing this is that we've set up a couple of servers that are > running diskless, but are bogging down a bit with getting everything via NFS. > I'm trying to get a diskless box note the installed drive, check to see if > it's in the format I expect, and if not perform the bsdlabel, newfs, and all > that. > > I know the basic info is somewhere accessible, or sysinstall wouldn't have > this stuff available. Just need a shove in the right direction please.
There are a *lot* of ways to roll-your-own, but have you tried "man sysinstall"? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
