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Date:      Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:40:47 -0500
From:      "Jeff Gold" <jeff.gold@gmail.com>
To:        jedrek <jedrek@t-n-p.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Scripting sysinstall
Message-ID:  <4bded9640802291240r14c9b011t19f3734fb229853@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47C805B8.1040202@t-n-p.org>
References:  <4bded9640802150914x4c868f40ue0f21b8d8e163745@mail.gmail.com> <47C805B8.1040202@t-n-p.org>

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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, jedrek <jedrek@t-n-p.org> 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 stuck in the same place but hadn't got around to it yet.  Below is
the shell script I'm using to create a bootable FreeBSD system.  I've
tested it successfully under QEMU and plan to try it on real hardware
soon.  This was indeed much easier to write that than to figure out
why sysinstall doesn't work.  Thanks for the link.  I'll read it and
see if there's anything in there I can use to improve my script.

                                                               Jeff

#! /bin/sh
set -ex
disk=${1:-ad0}
source=${2:-`echo /usr/pressgang/*-RELEASE | head -1`}

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$disk bs=1k count=1
fdisk -BI $disk
bsdlabel -B -w ${disk}s1 auto
size=`fdisk -s $disk | sed -En 's,^ *1: *[0-9]+ *([0-9]+) .*,\1,p'`
used=0
slice() {
    letter=${1?missing letter};   shift
    percent=${1?missing percent}; shift
    fixed=${1?missing fixed};     shift
    fstype=${1?missing fstype};   shift
    if [ x$fixed = xG ]; then
        ssize=`expr $percent \* 2097152`
    else
        ssize=`expr $size / 100 \* $percent`
    fi
    if expr $ssize \> $size - $used >/dev/null; then
        ssize=`expr $size - $used`
    fi
    echo $letter: $ssize $used $fstype $*
    used=`expr $used + $ssize`
}
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 >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf
slice e 15  p 4.2BSD 2048 16384     8 >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf
slice f 100 p 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >> /tmp/bsdlabel.conf
bsdlabel -R ${disk}s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.conf
rm -f /tmp/bsdlabel.conf

newfs /dev/${disk}s1a
newfs /dev/${disk}s1d
newfs /dev/${disk}s1e
newfs -U /dev/${disk}s1f

DESTDIR=/mnt
export DESTDIR
mount /dev/${disk}s1a $DESTDIR
mkdir -p $DESTDIR/usr $DESTDIR/tmp $DESTDIR/var
mount /dev/${disk}s1d $DESTDIR/usr
mount /dev/${disk}s1e $DESTDIR/tmp
mount /dev/${disk}s1f $DESTDIR/var

for dist in base dict doc manpages ports; do
    cd $source/$dist
    yes | ./install.sh >/dev/null
    # stdout goes to null so that obnoxious install questions are
    # not visible to the user, who might mistake them for something
    # that requires a response.
done
cd $source/kernels
./install.sh GENERIC
rmdir $DESTDIR/boot/kernel
mv $DESTDIR/boot/GENERIC $DESTDIR/boot/kernel

cat <<EOF > $DESTDIR/etc/fstab
# device         mountpoint  fstype  options         dump    pass
/dev/${disk}s1b  none        swap    sw              0       0
/dev/${disk}s1a  /           ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/${disk}s1d  /usr        ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/${disk}s1e  /tmp        ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/${disk}s1f  /var        ufs     rw              2       2
EOF
if [ -e /dev/acd0 ]; then
    mkdir -p $DESTDIR/cdrom
    cat <<EOF >> $DESTDIR/etc/fstab
/dev/acd0        /cdrom      cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
EOF
fi
cat <<EOF > $DESTDIR/etc/rc.conf
# FIXME: something should go in here.
EOF

cd $source/packages/All
cp *.tbz $DESTDIR/
chroot $DESTDIR pkg_add dependencies-*.tbz
rm -f $DESTDIR/*.tbz

umount $DESTDIR/var
umount $DESTDIR/tmp
umount $DESTDIR/usr
umount $DESTDIR



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