From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 11 13:47:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D09110656F4; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:33 +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 82F318FC13; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-46-151.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.46.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4BDlN1k007582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jerry McAllister Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:09 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200905111545.11696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20090511130405.GB20271@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090511130405.GB20271@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2987823.0fMAO5KH8r"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905112317.17225.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.404 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:35 -0000 --nextPart2987823.0fMAO5KH8r Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > > > for an approach to drive the entire installation from the > > > Fixit# command line console. > > > > > > i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. > > > > > > Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? > > > > You won't be able to partition the disk from the command line > > because the install MFS doesn't have any of the requisite tools to > > do so. > > ??????? I don't understand this comment. > Recreating a disk - slice/parttion/newfs - is one of the main things > to do under a fixit. You should have fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs > there as well as restore for sucking dumps back in. Depends what sort of fixit you have. A holographic shell won't have it, but the others will. It's pretty easy to do a minimal install on your new disk and then go=20 into the fixit shell, then you will have the full suite of tools=20 (although if you're doing a full restore you should use the /rescue=20 version or odd things will happen when you overwrite the binary you're=20 using). =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 --nextPart2987823.0fMAO5KH8r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKCCxl5ZPcIHs/zowRAjCxAJ9Zu9vioQF9w5iI7nrqEhzNSIQi6gCgjTGI PO5/bKc4Fs9kJM9IXsu/KTc= =CjxC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2987823.0fMAO5KH8r--