From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 09:27:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DED16A404; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc3-cdif2-0-0-cust64.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.106.128.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582E413C484; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HANNE-0005cs-VJ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:56 +0000 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:56 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Tom Rhodes Message-ID: <20070126092756.GJ42746@submonkey.net> References: <140400.93635.qm@web52103.mail.yahoo.com> <20070125145447.GA75689@submonkey.net> <20070125192839.00de0364.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z9ECzHErBrwFF8sy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070125192839.00de0364.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, rhyous@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: man sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:27:59 -0000 --z9ECzHErBrwFF8sy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:28:39PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 +0000 > Ceri Davies wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: > > > Hello all, > > >=20 > > > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I > > > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. > > >=20 > > > I figured out that I needed to add dists=3Dbase kernels > > > GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the > > > list in the man page. > > >=20 > > > Is there anyone in charge of updating this > > > information? I have never submitted an update. > >=20 > > I guess that's me. Could you please raise a PR and send me the number? >=20 > I tried with almost every version of 5.X to get an unattended > install working. Never worked. It seems as if sysinstall > was looking only for a USB floppy drive. Originally I started > looking over the code to send in a PR and perhaps a patch, > but became busy with other things. I can't speak for 5.x because I didn't really run it, but this worked for 6.x a year ago: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/02/12/ The OP's note about adding the kernels line is definitely needed and I'll fix that (though I would really love a PR for it), but for anything else, you have to send hardware (a laptop or Soekris, I'm not fussy!) :) Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --z9ECzHErBrwFF8sy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFucmcocfcwTS3JF8RAhSFAJ9/kckRulSgKrYCS3PJLdnz0TPcawCeNu7y Qp/F1GDWsglnAiG5mqO02jg= =Xwum -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z9ECzHErBrwFF8sy--