Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:53:42 -0700 From: Lamont Lucas <lamont@cluepon.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 6.1 jumpstart issues Message-ID: <20060602025341.GH46634@clavin.cluepon.com>
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I recently upgraded my jumpstart server from 5.5 to 6.1 and have had some issues getting the new jumpstart process working. Specifically, while using my old install.cfg, my new machines were not being built with a kernel. I figured out that the sysinstall manpage is out of date and as of 6.x there is a new distribution that needs to be installed, named kernels. However, even after adding that: ################################ # Select which distributions we want. dists=base kernels manpages catpages proflibs dict distSetCustom ################################ the kernel was still not installed. It dosen't even look like sysinstall attempted to process it, either. I'm going through the sysinstall source to see if it's aware of kernels, but having no luck yet. Has anybody successfully used a 6.x machine to build a jumpstart server? Is there a better source for automating sysinstall info than the manpage? (I originally used the freebsd.org handbook site on pxeboot, but it was horribly out of date (4.x) and later had more luck with http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot/article.html, which is how I got my 5.5 machine working. I see it has been updated for 6.x but uses a non-custom dist install set, which isn't exactly what I want) -- - Lamont "I am not an atomic playboy."
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