Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-29 Thread Jeff Gold
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Missing a few echo's there What's missing? This seems to work... > and better off for ease of editing in the future, > to use the cat

Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-29 Thread Mel
On Friday 29 February 2008 21:40:47 Jeff Gold wrote: > echo "8 partitions:" > /tmp/bsdlabel.conf > slice a 1 G 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776 >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf > slice b 2 G swap >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf > echo "c: $size 0 unused 0 0" >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf > slice d 10 p 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >>

Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-29 Thread Jeff Gold
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, jedrek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered partitioning the disk manually with fdisk & bsdlabel and > [...] Not only have I considered it, I've done it! I've been meaning to post a follow up message to explain exactly how in case other people are st

Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-29 Thread Andrew Von Cid
Hi Jeff, > I'm having problems with sysinstall used from a script. (Before you > ask, yes I've read the man page and yes I know sysinstall is "greatly > in need of death" but I've not yet found a plausible alternative. I'm > all ears if you've got one to suggest.) I had a lot of drama trying

Re: Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Gold
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Jeff Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I invoke this sysinstall certainly seems busy -- it claims to be > unpacking the > distribution set I specified -- but it doesn't actually accomplish > anything. No boot loader is installed and no changes are made to

Scripting sysinstall

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Gold
I'm having problems with sysinstall used from a script. (Before you ask, yes I've read the man page and yes I know sysinstall is "greatly in need of death" but I've not yet found a plausible alternative. I'm all ears if you've got one to suggest.) I'm using a custom built live CD based on FreeSB

Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around specifying the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if a some other machine has a

scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-10 Thread Christopher Cowart
Hello- I'm working on a project to netboot servers and perform a custom installation of FreeBSD. I have pxeboot working with tftp, providing an mfs image over the network. sysinstall runs as init and attempts to follow my install.cfg. However, when running my mediaSetFTP command, sysinstall error

scripting sysinstall / how to get NIC name in config file

2005-05-08 Thread User vr
hi, i'm trying to customize a CD for remote office installations and one of the problems I need to figure out is how to get the name for the first network interface to stick it in install.cfg. In linux it will always be eth0. In my case I am dealing with either xl, fxp, rl or ed interfaces, but I