Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:14:57 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap Message-ID: <1F3921E9-5314-43CA-9515-EDAADFCD47B1@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VM1qGLrvjDJnhafi5=B4DCmL85CKmyOF7t9Sp@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=VM1qGLrvjDJnhafi5=B4DCmL85CKmyOF7t9Sp@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19/02/2011, at 20:04, grarpamp wrote: > 1 - I used install.cfg's on floppies to clone systems, a lot. Hands > on the box were needed with that. Operators skills were in question, > so having them use the dialog menus properly was a pain and often > resulted in non-zeroed disk or half built systems. And though all > else was cloned, it needed a separate <host>.cfg for each box due > to: >=20 > fqdn, gateway, ip/mask > interface - sometimes changed > root disk - sometimes changed >=20 > Would have killed for a simple console shell script to ask those > questions of the operator, per machine. Not to get into the whole "wishlist for sysinstall Mk II" (aka second = system syndrome in full effect).. You can do this with sysinstall already (although it isn't very clean). Also, you don't need floppies, you can do the whole install off a FAT32 = USB stick with the aforementioned install.cfg file and a script run from = that. I do this at work to do a partition & minimal install, then untar a = pre-populated FS generated from a chroot. It also asks various questions = afterward for final tuning. -- 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
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