From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 14:53:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D5D16A4DA for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:53:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com) Received: from web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.101.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44FD543D6B for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 12805 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Aug 2006 14:53:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Ash797Ir+70DopfKRLfekJh0cvxB5CbnEQdOLz/ExiauFuv+TmNG3UGrbPWZOMgDSw2vQ1eZ61wZgXG3uDfiKs0AbSx8Gx2XOxGpt3LJ8WHDIa8bqCieSpTg2zKV6wCaixGQE65H0rdok2L6Z+5fXTiG+bRCNJsd31BccLzsVMY= ; Message-ID: <20060831145328.12803.qmail@web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.240.228.37] by web83113.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:53:28 PDT Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:53:28 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard To: Ruslan Ermilov , Thomas Vogt In-Reply-To: <20060831085225.GF14958@rambler-co.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:53:30 -0000 --- Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > [ added freebsd-questios@ ] > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas > Vogt wrote: > > Hello > > > > In this emails > > > > you > > wrote that you don't install freebsd with > sysinstall. May I ask you how you > > do this? Maybe in some way like this: > > > ? > > > > I'm just curious. > > > Plenty of options, depending on the available > environment and > needs. > > 1) Add a spare disk to an existing FreeBSD box, and > populate > it using installworld/installkernel/distribution > targets > and specifying DESTDIR pointing to a mounted > spare disk. > > 2) Boot from live-system on CD-ROM, prepare and > partition the > disk(s), install distributions manually through > install.sh > scripts. > > 3) Boot from live-system on CD-ROM, prepare and > partition the > disk(s), CVSup, build/install from sources. > > 4) Boot in a PXE/TFTP/NFS diskless environment > (details are > in the Handbook), install distributions using a > shell > script as above. Distributions may come from > either > remote CD-ROM media, or be prepared by "make > release" > and made available over NFS to diskless clients. > A modification of this approach includes a mass > deployment > option that involves writing (relatively simple) > local > installation scripts that automate the tasks. > > Many other options... > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > ru@FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer > Out of curiosity... So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead box, setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I want to build, tweak the build environment for the proper temporary build locations and build a system from source and install that system to the now live box, boot it and be done? I've always wondered about this because I always remake the system I've just installed because I'm usually dealing with deprecated hardware and all the architecture tweaks I could use help... If that run on is confusing basically to setup FreeBSD like a gentoo install from scratch with a system CD. also along these lines how do I make the system allow me to seed the entropy engine? Usually after an install it asks to fill in a screen full of junk, but with a custom install it doesn't do this for me, at least not the last time I tried. Just curious, especially if I attempt the above procedure. -brian