Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-16 Thread iv gan
Thanks for the answers John, Glen I think John was right that it is better to build my own mfsroot and then make config scripts etc. The `sysctl -a` can do the thing with detecting the hardware etc. It is a bit lammy but is working. Then dd fdisk bsdlabel and newfs do the rest. However if someone i

Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-10 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 09:18 am, iv gan wrote: > I am not so sure because the script cannot detect different devices. > It can be ad or ar or whatever but it cannot chechk for it. And what I > would like to do is more to detect the device and then to do something > like 10% to /, 20% to /tmp 3

Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-10 Thread iv gan
I am not so sure because the script cannot detect different devices. It can be ad or ar or whatever but it cannot chechk for it. And what I would like to do is more to detect the device and then to do something like 10% to /, 20% to /tmp 35% to /var and 35% to /usr or something like it. Any suggest

Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-10 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:11 AM 8/10/2005, iv gan wrote: Yep that's write. but there is no way to script a generic install so to install on different drives with different sizes. So for that there is maybe a way to change something in the sysintall sources. But without any success for the moment I don't see anythi

Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-10 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:39 AM 8/10/2005, iv gan wrote: Hi there, I try to make a custom installation of FreeBSD 5.3 in a way that there are no questions during the process but rather it detects the hard disk size makes the partitions etc... For the moment I smply try to compile sysinstall (cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sys

Re: howto make sysintall

2005-08-10 Thread iv gan
Yep that's write. but there is no way to script a generic install so to install on different drives with different sizes. So for that there is maybe a way to change something in the sysintall sources. But without any success for the moment Thanks Ivo On 8/10/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w