sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread vrwmiller
Hi all, Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The scripts that are run are placed into the mfsroot in /stand and /. They

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread krad
On 11 November 2010 12:12, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The scripts that are

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Ross
vgc I do this twice before the installCommit and both scripts run and load the vgc resulting configs successfully. I also run another script after the vgc InstallComit...it fails citing the script could not be found. In vgc troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand and doing

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Rick Miller
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ross we...@connection.ca wrote: vgc I do this twice before the installCommit and both scripts run and load the vgc resulting configs successfully. I also run another script after the vgc InstallComit...it fails citing the script could not be found. In vgc

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Devin Teske
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:12 +, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Hoping that someone might be able to help me here. I dynamically generate much of the install.cfg by running scripts that send output to files that are, in turn, loaded into install.cfg utilizing loadConfig. The

Re: Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread vrwmiller
Wow! Thanks for all the info and the time you spent pulling it together and writing it out, Devin! There is a lot to digest. Right now, I do have a workaround that I am currently testing out. I will be hanging onto your email for future reference, certainly. On Nov 11, 2010 12:19pm, Devin

Re: Automated sysinstall install.cfg

2010-07-02 Thread Ross
TT is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with TT sysinstall and its install.cfg. TT How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ? Before the installCommit command you generally only have access to statically compiled commands (generally in the /stand directory)

Re: Automated sysinstall install.cfg

2010-07-02 Thread krad
On 2 July 2010 15:48, Ross we...@connection.ca wrote: TT is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with TT sysinstall and its install.cfg. TT How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ? Before the installCommit command you generally only have access to

Automated sysinstall install.cfg

2010-07-01 Thread Thomas Toka / www.serverman.de
Hello, is there a person who can help me to solve some problems with sysinstall and its install.cfg. How can i manage that my mfsroot executes custom commands ? -- Viele GrĂ¼sse aus Menden Thomas Toka Webmaster,

sysinstall install.cfg question

2008-08-22 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how could I tell sysinstall to let the user choose the disk he want to install into and then, based on that response, create automatically without any other question the partitions/labels that are required. I've seen several examples but I can't find the way to

sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Todd
I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without needing any interaction other than putting in the CD. I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the modified installation CD, or how to

Re: sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/11/2005 6:52 AM, Todd wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use the sysinstall using a install.cfg script to install on multiple machines without floppies, and without needing any interaction other than putting in the CD. I can create the script but don't know where to put it on the

Re: sysinstall install.cfg questions

2005-11-03 Thread Todd
Thank you! Excellent, exactly what I needed. The plan is to use disc1 of the release and modify it with a few packages and config changes to make an easily installable version of our modified desktop (Waimea/ROX/Webmin). I was going to use the BSD installer (bsdinstaller.org) but this way

sysinstall install.cfg disk unmount failure

2004-03-31 Thread Don
I've scripted sysinstall to do a complete system installation, compiled a custom PXE kernel and mfsroot image, and gotten almost all of my disk issues straightened out. My last issue is this: After the system installation completes and the system reboots, I get errors about the file systems not

Sysinstall, install.cfg, unable to find device node

2004-03-18 Thread Jacob Atzen
Hello all, I am trying to make an automatic install procedure of a FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm booting from the 5.2.1-miniiso and then I insert a floppy containing my install.cfg. Then I select the Load config menuitem from sysinstall and run the install.cfg. It then perform some network operations but

Set Fragment Size via sysinstall/install.cfg

2004-02-04 Thread Michael Barrett
I have a PXE boot build system that works great. I am about to make a database that will grow very large, so I thought it might be a good idea to create a partition for that database that has a large fragment block size (to save time on fsck's and the like). Does anyone know how to do

Re: Set Fragment Size via sysinstall/install.cfg

2004-02-04 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:20:37 -0800 Michael Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PXE boot build system that works great. I am about to make a database that will grow very large, so I thought it might be a good idea to create a partition for that database that has a large

[5.1] custom FDISK with sysinstall + install.cfg

2003-06-18 Thread Jacques Beigbeder
Suppose I want to get something like: 0 63 62- 12 unused0 63 20466747 20466809da0s1 8freebsd 165 20466810 15085035 35551844da0s2 8freebsd 165 35551845 14633 35566477- 12