Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:16:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall tweak Message-ID: <72597.940698973@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Oct 1999 16:13:22 EDT." <yzshfjjcfx9.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
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> Suppose I need to install on a bunch of machines. What I'd do, is > install once, get all the pieces/ports/customizations right and then > make a tarball of the system. To install the next machine, I'd use > sysinstall to partition and label the new machine and then just nfs > mount the machine with the tarball, unroll it and just fix rc.conf as > necessary. But when you go this way, there are no commands available > available at the holographic shell. Could this be fixed by letting > the commands be linked/copied into the chroot env? Um. But the chroot directory, e.g. where all your filesystems are mounted, is where you're also supposed to extract the bits or you'd be attempting to whap this NFS-mounted tarball onto your MFS. :) This question doesn't quite make sense to me, I'm afraid. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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