From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 5:17:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fox.amnesty.org (fox.amnesty.org [194.131.159.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C88A37B401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:17:05 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Custom installation using boot.flp (2.88) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.6a January 17, 2001 Message-ID: From: falbu@amnesty.org Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:06:18 +0000 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on fox/I.S./Amnesty International(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 15/02/2001 13:17:28, Serialize complete at 15/02/2001 13:17:28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello list, Background: I am using FreeBSD 4.1 and I have to perform the same installation on multiple servers with identical hardware. I am trying to use the sysinstall feature, that is to have a customized install.cfg in the root folder. The resources I found so far, which are somehow related to this subject, were: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ (Thanks to Alfred Perlstein) I have managed so far to add it to the floppy image msfroot.flp with the following procedure: cp /dist/floppies/msfroot.flp /tmp vnconfig vn0 /tmp/mfsroot.flp mount /dev/vn0 /mnt cp /mnt/msfroot.gz /tmp umount /mnt vnconfig -u vn0 gunzip /tmp/msfroot.gz vnconfig vn0 /tmp/msfroot mount /dev/vn0 /mnt and copy now the customized install.cfg to the root in /mnt Problem: I was trying to do the same for boot.flp (the 2.88 MB image), so that I can burn a bootable CD with it. However, when I mount boot.flp using the procedure described above, I can see that the contents of it is quite different. Question: What is the structure of boot.flp and how can I add a file to it in the same way I did with msfroot.flp? I couldn't find any documentation about how to modify boot.flp. Many thanks, Florentin Albu Client-Server Systems Manager falbu@amnesty.org _________________________________________________________ Amnesty International, International Secretariat visit us at http://www.amnesty.org Be Realistic! Plan for a Miracle! ONE click to stamp out torture. http://www.stoptorture.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message