From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 00:42:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509E316A41F for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:42:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAF643D46 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:42:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8574CE7F6 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.vicor-nb.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postoffice.vicor-nb.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58646-01 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by postoffice.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B794CE7B7 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42E43589.6030009@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:42:49 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050629 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postoffice.vicor.com Subject: installing 6.0 over the network X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:42:51 -0000 I did: cd /usr/src make buildworld buildkernel cd release make release MYBUILD CHROOTDIR=/usr/tmp/chroot CVSROOT={path to my mirror} RELEASETAG=RELENG_6 as the man page states. this built successfully then I set my dhcpd parameters to give a pxeboot address of /usr/tmp/chroot/R/cdrom/disc1/boot/pxeboot and set teh root directory to be /usr/tmp/chroot/R/cdrom/disc1 (and exported it) on boot, my netbooting system does in fact boot with an NFS root directory running the correct kernel etc. however what I want is to make it boot into sysinstall rather than booting into init.. how do I make is do this? I did basically hte same thing for 4.11 and it loaded sysinstall. what do I have to do differently in 6.0 to make this happen? I did log into the netbooted system and run sysinstall by hand but it isn't quite the same.. julian