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Date:      Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:18:29 +0100
From:      Harm Weites <harm@weites.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   flexible install.cfg url from kernel parameters
Message-ID:  <1226006309.3180.27.camel@laptop>

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Hi all,

in an effort to create a jumpstart/kickstart-like environment for easy
OS deployment i, ofcourse, ran into install.cfg for FreeBSD. It works
great, but since it requires a modified image (with an inserted
install.cfg file) it's not a great option. It even needs a BSD box or
CentOS with plus kernel to access the ufs filesystem inside the image...

Is there any effort beeing done to allow for a more convenient way to
load the install.cfg? Say, like linux does with kickstart/preseed files?
Just fill in some weblocation as kernel parameter and you're done :)

I would suspect this beeing coded in sysinstall somewhere, or perhaps
init?

Any suggestions/help is appreciated.

Regards

Harm




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