From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 12:12:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11309106566C for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:12:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959EA8FC14 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr1 with SMTP id dr1so579203wgb.1 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.99.225 with SMTP id et1mr51587933wib.2.1327061566595; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l2sm8382270wie.11.2012.01.20.04.12.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:12:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F195A3C.2070408@my.gd> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:12:44 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 References: <4F180C83.9090100@my.gd> <4F19279F.6060303@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4F19279F.6060303@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Horrible installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:12:48 -0000 On 1/20/12 9:36 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> >> On 1/19/12 3:25 AM, Allan McKinnon wrote: >>> I finally got to install FreeBSD 9 onto my computer and noticed that >>> the installer is now different. It seems to me that it forces you >>> into doing extra steps that I was comfortable doing on my own. I >>> really enjoyed the old installer because then I had complete control >>> over how I tweaked my computer during and after the install. I am >>> surprised that there is no gui present while installing FreeBSD >>> because it feels more like Ubuntu or a windows install (somewhat). >>> Please, please, please take this nightmare away and bring the beloved >>> installer that was before FreeBSD 9. >>> Thank you for listening. >>> Allan >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Erm, you have to realize the new installer was discussed at length here, >> when 9.0 was still under development/beta/prerelease. >> >> Then would have been the best time to voice your frustration over the >> new scheme. >> >> >> >> Alternatively, you could do like me and install entirely by hand: >> >> - boot an MFSBSD image (thanks mm@ ) >> - partition your disks from there (see http://my.gd/bsd.htm for a rough >> sketch on how to use gpart) >> - fetch the 9.0 archives in .txz (tar.xz) format >> - unpack archives with xz -d >> - untar archived to the mountpoint with your new filesystems (eg: tar xf >> base.tar -C /mnt) >> - customize configuration files (rc.conf, fstab, root's password or SSH >> key, sshd_config to allow root login temporarily) >> >> And then most of all, profit ;) >> >> >> >> I've been doing installs this way first with 8.x (using the install >> scripts on the CDROM) then now with 9.x unpacking the .txz archives. >> >> I'm quite happy with it, the process is simple enough to document and >> reproduce, and offers suitable customization options. >> >> We've developed a tiny web interface here that lets us customize the >> size, type and label of our GPT partitions, hostname, IP address, root >> password and SSH accounts/keys to deploy on such newly installed >> machines. >> The interface spits the whole wall of commands to paste once logged in >> to the MFSBSD image to install the new OS and configure it. >> >> Works like a charm really. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > > so post your script so others can use it I'm afraid it's not that simple, the PHP page that generates the customized lines to copy/paste for installations is integrated into our user management interface (for reasons I'll skip). I can't post that since it's corporate stuff. However you've got a rough sketch of how we do it at - http://my.gd/bsd.htm and a much more complete procedure based on it from Ollivier Robert at: - http://www.keltia.net/howtos/freebsd-dedibox