Hi!
A quick re-cap: Want to do an unattended FreeBSD install using bsdinstall
and ZFS. I now have a workaround and consider crying wol^H^H^Hbug.
The following minimal install script works as expected for UFS:
install-ufs.txt
DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz"
RELEASE="10.1"
PARTITIONS="da0"
#!/bin/sh
echo "Ready for post installation damage..."
Invoke with:
bsdinstall script install-ufs.txt
Now switching to ZFS I would expect the following to work:
install-zfs1.txt
DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz"
RELEASE="10.1"
ZFSBOOT_DISKS="da0 da1"
ZFSBOOT_VDEV_TYPE="mirror"
#!/bin/sh
echo "Ready for post installation damage..."
Invoke with:
bsdinstall script install-zfs1.txt
Failure:
- ZFSBOOT_DISKS, ZFSBOOT_VDEV_TYPE not picked up
- Asks for ZFS configuration interactively
Miroslav Lachman hinted that from looking at the source I should set
NONINTERACTIVE. This does not work.
Hours later I have figure out the following which works(tm):
install-zfs2.txt
DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz"
RELEASE="10.1"
export ZFSBOOT_DISKS="da0 da1"
export ZFSBOOT_VDEV_TYPE="mirror"
export nonInteractive="YES"
#!/bin/sh
echo "Ready for post installation damage..."
Invoke with:
bsdinstall script install-zfs2.txt
This works as expected but it does not sit nice with me. But I am no guru
so I would be very very happy if anyone can confirm if my findings are
bogus or not? There is a huge number of indirect variables which really
confuses me! It seems that either someone is putting in a lot of
indirections but is not done yet - or vice versa. So "proper" usage
is up in the air.
Findings:
- CAPITAL letters are used for "input" variables
- CamelCase is used for "internal" variables.
- NONINTERACTIVE should be set by default when using "bsdinstall script"
- Setting NONINTERACTIVE manually is not picked up
- Setting nonInteractive works but is bad practice and not intended by
design
- Doing export as part of the bsdinstall script is not what was intended
by design
Does these findings sound reasonable? If so - would it be fair to consider
the current functionality a bug? Or am I too stupid to get the feature?
I can file a PR and help out with test and documentation. But the current
incarnation of bsdinstall is too convoluted for my low level of script-fu.
Kind Regards,
Claus Andersen
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