From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 01:53:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8944616A402 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 01:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2B913C447 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 01:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp204-197.lns1.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.204.197]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l491rMcG059144 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 May 2007 11:23:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:23:04 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705091123.13605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Matthew X. Economou" Subject: Re: Creating one's own installer/mfsroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:53:27 -0000 --nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot > images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using > sysinstall)? It appears that one could develop a simplified > network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel, > newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the > usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk). You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it. > (sysinstall requires too specific a configuration for my needs, which > are focused on en masse - and zero touch - workstation and server > deployment.) sysinstall will look for an install.cfg file in the mfsroot and run it=20 so you should be able to do it that way with perhaps some small=20 modification to sysinstall. Might be less work to tweak sysinstall rather than starting from=20 scratch. This might be of interest BTW..=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGQSmJ5ZPcIHs/zowRApZlAKCluB5T9E9G0lMiNQp4nAx7lq9e5ACeMwxg 8rKDorH3zPkNUNN66m40Ve8= =Y6dI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2201036.yZM6BZUIjU--