Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:53:24 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations Message-ID: <200003171453.JAA43008@dean.pc.sas.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000317074445.00b60d90@216.67.12.69> from Forrest Aldrich at "Mar 17, 2000 07:51:28 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Someone mentioned that sysinstall could be scripted... is this the way to > go, then? I use scripted sysinstalls here. It's really easy, however, you still have to interact with a few dialogs, namely: 1) of course, you have to specify your config file from the "Load Config" main menu option 2) you need to say whether or not you want to use DHCP 3) you need to interact with the crypto questions 4) you need to say whether or not you want to install the ports I think it would be worthwhile to modify sysinstall to so that you only have to do #1 above, but I haven't found it so painful to interact with the remaining three to submit patches to Jordan yet. Eventually, I will probably do this, unless someone else beats me to it. Everything else can be automated. Here's a sample config file that I put together: # scratchy.cfg # # FreeBSD Installation Config file for scratchy.unx.sas.com # # This file generated on 03/17/00 09:36:00 # debug=yes ipaddr=10.26.1.74 hostname=scratchy.unx.sas.com domainname=unx.sas.com defaultrouter=10.26.0.1 netmask=255.255.0.0 # ----- End of generated information ----- netDev=fxp0 ftp=ftp://freebsd2.unx.sas.com/pub/FreeBSD _ftpPath=ftp://freebsd2.unx.sas.com/pub/FreeBSD nameserver=10.16.149.6 mediaSetFTP distSetEverything dists=local X9set distUnsetCustom disk=ad0 partition=exclusive diskPartitionEditor # 128 Meg /root partition ad0s1-1=ufs 262144 / # 256 Meg swap partition ad0s1-2=swap 524288 none # 1 Gig /tmp partition ad0s1-3=ufs 2097152 /tmp # 256 Meg /var partition ad0s1-4=ufs 524288 /var # all remaining space for /usr partition ad0s1-5=ufs 0 /usr diskLabelEditor installCommit # pkg dir = /nfs/freebsd/pub/FreeBSD/packages/All package=bash-2.03 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=elm-2.4ME+68 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=emacs-20.6 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=hexedit-1.1.0 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=less-352 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=linux_base-6.1 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=lsof-4.48 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=mm-1.0.12 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=netscape-communicator-4.72 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=pdksh-5.2.14 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=procmail-3.14 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=rdate-1.0 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=sudo-1.6.2p1 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=tcsh-6.09.00 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=tkcvs-6.0 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=tkdiff-3.04 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=unzip-5.40 noError=TRUE packageAdd package=xv-m17n-3.10a noError=TRUE packageAdd package=zip-2.3 noError=TRUE packageAdd This script uses a local snap machine that we keep current and build snaps nightly from which to do an FTP install. I've got a script that I use to generate these config files. Essentially, I just specify the machine name, and my config generatator figures out the IP address, default router, and netmask, that is required for configuring the ethernet interface. Everything below the line "# ----- End of generated information -----" is the same for all hosts, only the stuff above that line is different for each host. So, I end up with a config file per host. -Brian -- Brian Dean brdean@unx.sas.com SAS Institute Inc. bsd@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200003171453.JAA43008>