From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 00:28:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF6516A401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:28:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from chipmunk.ai.net (axe.ai.net [205.134.161.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B5313C441 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:28:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com (net-ix.gw.ai.net [205.134.160.6]) by chipmunk.ai.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id l0Q0SxYG016071; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:28:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:28:39 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Ceri Davies Message-Id: <20070125192839.00de0364.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070125145447.GA75689@submonkey.net> References: <140400.93635.qm@web52103.mail.yahoo.com> <20070125145447.GA75689@submonkey.net> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, rhyous@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: man sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:28:52 -0000 On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 +0000 Ceri Davies wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I > > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. > > > > I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels > > GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the > > list in the man page. > > > > Is there anyone in charge of updating this > > information? I have never submitted an update. > > I guess that's me. Could you please raise a PR and send me the number? I tried with almost every version of 5.X to get an unattended install working. Never worked. It seems as if sysinstall was looking only for a USB floppy drive. Originally I started looking over the code to send in a PR and perhaps a patch, but became busy with other things. -- Tom Rhodes