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From: Jud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, slave-mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New work on installer?
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 05:35:25 -0400
On Mon, 17 May 2004 18:09:19 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:38:55PM +0000, slave-mike wrote:If one were to *not* use the installer to setup a FreeBSD system, (aka, like *old* dos, each step done manually), what are the manual steps involved?
It's not something that I have at my finger-tips, as there's generally no need to install without the installer... However, an outline of the process would be something like this:
- Boot up system from removable media (CD-Rom, floppy disk), or other external media (eg. Netboot (PXE)).
- Slice and partition disk space appropriately
- Install boot blocks or MBR if required
- Create file systems on the partitions that require them. Temporarily mount the new file systems so that they can be written to.
- Copy into place the kernel, kernel modules, the contents of the system directories like /lib, /bin, /sbin. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin This can be from a disk image or .tar file or similar on your installation media, or from any other system accessible over the network.
- Edit the crucial configuration files (/etc/fstab, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/rc.conf, ...) with appropriate data for the system.
- Set a root password and possibly add other user accounts as required.
- Reboot
DragonFlyBSD is a fork of FreeBSD 4.x that, last I looked, lacks sysinstall. Except for DragonFly's 'cpdup' command (for which one could substitute 'tar' or something similar, I suppose), these instructions for installing DragonFly should therefore fairly closely mirror a sysinstall-less FreeBSD install from a convenient ISO:
<URL: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/nrelease/root/README?rev=1.12>
Jud
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