mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, For anyone interested, I posted a blog with regards to how sysinstall is run from mfsroot. URL is http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/12/18/mfsroot-starts-sysinstall-how/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Devin Teske
On Dec 12, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Rick Miller > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? > It's actually invoked in the place of init(8). > To explain more, I would l

Re: mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > Hi All, > > How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? To explain more, I would like to boot into a shell as opposed to sysinstall. safe mode and single user don't seem to. -- Take ca

mfsroot starts sysinstall how?

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, How is sysinstall invoked in a FreeBSD 8.x mfsroot.gz? -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-27 Thread Rick Miller
When I specify partition=all, it starts that slice at sector 63. I'd like to start it at 64 or above. Is it feasible to include gpart in the mfsroot and use that to partition the drive before sysinstall continues with the installation? -- Take care Rick Miller ___

sysinstall diskPartitionEditor Question

2012-06-26 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I'd like to set the offset/starting cylinder in install.cfg so that partitions begin on appropriate boundaries. The applicable section of install.cfg looks like the following. My assumption is that I need to make the changes in the "partition" section. Is this correct? Is the format of

Building a releng_9_0 with sysinstall, livefs and mfsroot

2012-03-07 Thread egoitz
Good morning, Have just sent to freebsd-hackers mailing list the way of doing this. I say this because perhaps could be useful for someone... Best regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-06 Thread Da Rock
On 03/07/12 01:01, David Walker wrote: Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au What tv card? Mine work fine Thread here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2012-February/001370.html May have to do with the cx88 port available, especially as its from 2006 (las

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-06 Thread David Walker
Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au > What tv card? Mine work fine Thread here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-drivers/2012-February/001370.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-05 Thread Da Rock
On 03/06/12 05:23, David Walker wrote: Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net OK, here goes: (in Nelson Muntz's voice) Haha, you clown, that's what you get for believing what documentation says. Use a magnetized needle and a steady hand you buffoon! There. I respect! :) Well played. It's a seriou

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-05 Thread David Walker
Nikola Pavlović nzp at riseup.net > OK, here goes: (in Nelson Muntz's voice) Haha, you clown, that's what > you get for believing what documentation says. Use a magnetized needle > and a steady hand you buffoon! > There. I respect! :) Well played. It's a serious issue for me after 15 years of

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-04 Thread Nikola Pavlović
if you do everything the docs tell you to, then there is no reason to think it's your fault. > That's also my normal way when I'm familiar with something. > Please tell me if that methodology is not as good as yours ... > > > with bsdinstall then I guess everything >

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-04 Thread David Walker
as yours ... > with bsdinstall then I guess everything > would install correctly. I guess that also. Please read man sysinstall for me and point out why I should be guessing whether or not system utilities are intended to function as described. Replies to the list are fine. > But anywa

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread David Walker
So of course I can't install source using sysinstall either ... No problem, I'll re-install (reverting a few hours of work) and do it on the install. Of course it works perfectly - I am able to install ports and src from the CD that sysinstall fails on ... As I'm getting used to

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:37:07AM +1030, David Walker wrote: > So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". > I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.htm

Re: sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/03/2012 20:07, David Walker wrote: > So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". > I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > Looks ea

sysinstall

2012-03-03 Thread David Walker
So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html Looks easy. For some unknown reason sysinstall spits the following

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Brent Clark wrote: I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The error

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200 Brent Clark wrote: > I use "Install from an FTP server" > > The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase distribution > from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org."; > > Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. Get it with csup and be sure to set

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Da Rock
On 02/17/12 19:31, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The err

sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to download the kernel source. I tried following this example http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ I use "Install from an FTP server" The error message I get is "Unable to tra

8.2-RELEASE sysinstall creates duplicate rc.conf lines

2012-02-15 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, We recently discovered that sysinstall appears to be adding it's own lines to /etc/rc.conf which are duplicates of lines that we are inserting during builds. For example, on one of our hosts, we are adding "defaultrouter" and "ifconfig_em0" with certain network

Re: Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0530, Amitabh Kant wrote: > All the commands run fine and I am able to generate an iso. Now, couple of > questions that have confused me: > a) Where do I place install.cfg file for sysinstall to read without any user > intervention? In the root directory

Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Amitabh Kant
Hello I am trying to create a custom FreeBSD iso which will automate most of the steps asked in a standard installation using sysinstall. While "make release" is available, I was trying to modify disc1 iso, as it seems that I only need to have install.cfg for automating sysinstall. I

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the disk, such as gpart. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > > pec

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > peculiar to this OS, somewhere. > When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny me

sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Dear people, I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems peculiar to this OS, somewhere. When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on the screen (see http://lix.in/-9b7e16 for an image

RE: Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

2010-11-17 Thread Ramblewski David
tions@freebsd.org; freebsd-sysinst...@freebsd.org Objet : Re: Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:18 +0100, Ramblewski David wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to jumpstart FreeBSD on an non interactive way. > The s

Re: Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread vrwmiller
ow) /dist -- your install media > In troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand That's right: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c.diff?r1=1.360;r2=1.361;f=h That change was made 5 years, 9 months ago. > and doin

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Devin Teske
eit CD/DVD, NFS, etc.) Meanwhile, _after_ distExtractAll (or installCommit in your case), you are chroot(2)'ed into /mnt, so this is now your environment: / -- your newly formatted disk (populated with FreeBSD now) /dist -- your install media > In troubleshooting, I found that sysinsta

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread Rick Miller
ot be found. In > vgc> troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand and doing > other > vgc> stuff to / and /var. So, I know why the script cannot be found...because > vgc> sysinstall is removing it. > > sysinstall basically does a chroot into the newly installed root af

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 removin

Re: sysinstall install.cfg

2010-11-11 Thread krad
ot be found. In > troubleshooting, I found that sysinstall is removing /stand and doing other > stuff to / and /var. So, I know why the script cannot be found...because > sysinstall is removing it. > > The question I have then is how can I get around this? I attempted putting > th

sysinstall install.cfg

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

Re: Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

2010-11-09 Thread Devin Teske
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:18 +0100, Ramblewski David wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to jumpstart FreeBSD on an non interactive way. > The solution provided by the Handbook recommend to use sysinstall program, > that's what I'm trying to do. -sysins

Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

2010-11-09 Thread Ramblewski David
Hi, I'm looking for a solution to jumpstart FreeBSD on an non interactive way. The solution provided by the Handbook recommend to use sysinstall program, that's what I'm trying to do. The servers are using PXE boot to mount an mfsbsd filesystem, everything works as expect

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 3, Message: 2 On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, > per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: > > > Devin Teske wrote: > > > > > sysinstall

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: > Devin Teske wrote: > > > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making > > changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK > > partition editor

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread perryh
Devin Teske wrote: > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making > changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK > partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch > sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1,

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Devin Teske
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 23:48 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:04:15 -0700 > Devin Teske wrote: > > > I'll be the first to admit that sysinstall(8) could be a little easier > > to use in the userland. It should be noted that sade(8) (System > > Ad

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:04:15 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that sysinstall(8) could be a little easier > to use in the userland. It should be noted that sade(8) (System > Administrator's Disk Editor) is no different -- sade, at this point at > least

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Devin Teske
t; one slice ad4s1 and partitions in it for /, /usr, /var, ... > > I thought the simplest way would be just run sysinstall(8) and use the > FDISK and BSDLABEL from the post-install dialog. FDISK went fine and in > the BSDLABEL dialog I just used 'A' (auto defaults). O

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Beat Siegenthaler
On 01.11.10 01:03, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > sysinstall isn't really intended for post-install use: you should probably > learn how to use gpart instead - e.g. > Maybe sade (sysadmins disk editor) would help too... loo

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 01 November 2010 09:06:53 Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm unsure about the 3rd command (gpart create -s bsd ad4s1), should it > use 'ad4' as you say above, or 'ad4s1' as in the August's post? Since you're creating the bsd scheme inside the freebsd container, you would use ad4s1. -- Bruce

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 12:03:54AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) > > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? > > sysinsta

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 01 November 2010 06:09:51 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Is there any document explaining this in more > detail as the man page of gpart(8). The FreeBSD Handbook in chaptar 18.3 > points still to sysinstall(8) and bsdlabel(8)... The documentation for gpart

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 12:03:54AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) > > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? > > sysinsta

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 31 October 2010 20:02:58 Matthias Apitz wrote: > How this is supposed to work using sysinstall(8) > or should one use only bsdlabel(8) directly in such a case? sysinstall isn't really intended for post-install use: you should probably learn how to use gpart instead -

sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Matthias Apitz
way would be just run sysinstall(8) and use the FDISK and BSDLABEL from the post-install dialog. FDISK went fine and in the BSDLABEL dialog I just used 'A' (auto defaults). On 'W' (write to disk) the sysinstall(8) complained about 'unable to open /dev/ad4s1a and so on for all

sysinstall list not part of main mailing-list search engine

2010-10-27 Thread Devin Teske
It appears that our beloved -sysinstall@ mailing-list does not appear on the main search page where one can search the archives. http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists Is anyone on this list capable of getting it added? -- Cheers, Devin Teske -> CONTACT INFORMATION <- Bu

partitioning a gmirror (was Re: sysinstall vs gmirror)

2010-10-04 Thread perryh
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Re: sysinstall with Fixit option and RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot caused kernel panic on Vmware machine!

2010-09-21 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/09/2010, at 7:29 PM, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I followed tut at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ to install > FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT on my VMWARE virtual machine. > When I go to step "Install FreeBSD to zroo

sysinstall with Fixit option and RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot caused kernel panic on Vmware machine!

2010-09-21 Thread Phan Quoc Hien
Hi everyone! I followed tut at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT on my VMWARE virtual machine. When I go to step "Install FreeBSD to zroot" kernel-panic appeared! My virtual machine detail: RAM: 512MB HDD: 10GB vmware workstation: 7.1.0 buil

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-18 Thread Brandon Gooch
tter) without either using sysinstall or having to understand > gpart. I've used something like this from the Fixit console (using /dev/ad0 as an example): Fixit# kldload /dist/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko Fixit# gmirror -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0 Fixit# fdisk -v -B -I /dev/mirror/gm

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable). > > > > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives > > using sysinstall, but how do I go abo

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > > Next fdisk/gpart accordingly (don't forget to make it bootable). > > This is where I get stuck. I've partitioned the physical drives > using sysinstall, but how do I go about partitioning gm0? > Your problem is that yo

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-17 Thread perryh
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand. > > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations > > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall > &g

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand. > (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations > involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall > seems at least to know how to translate a

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? > > ... > I don't think sysinstall will do what you want. It certainly has been less than totally cooperative so far :( > However, what i

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? > > I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider -- > using Fixit#, followed by > > Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot > Fixit# gmirror

sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-11 Thread perryh
How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider -- using Fixit#, followed by Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot Fixit# gmirror load after which /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b} exist. However, even after rescanning the

Re: sysinstall fails when adding distributions

2010-07-02 Thread Randi Harper
This has been fixed. Get a newer RC. -- randi On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Kristaps Kūlis wrote: > Hi, >  On FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (i386) on IBM T43, sysinstall fails when trying to > add src distribution to already installed system (when starting to download > them from FTP)

Re: Automated sysinstall install.cfg

2010-07-02 Thread krad
On 2 July 2010 15:48, Ross 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 gener

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 (gene

sysinstall fails when adding distributions

2010-07-02 Thread Kristaps Kūlis
Hi, On FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (i386) on IBM T43, sysinstall fails when trying to add src distribution to already installed system (when starting to download them from FTP). No network activity is observed. coredump: http://www.ltn.lv/~kristapskulis/sysinstall.core dmesg: http://www.ltn.lv

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 Grüsse aus Menden Thomas Toka Webmaster

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Nicholas Mills
> > sectors: 255H 63S/T 121575C) > > > da0 is fine, and the system boots off of it with no problem. > > > When I try to add da1 to the system, I get the following: > > > * Run systinstall, Configure, Fdisk, select da1 > > > * Get the friendly warn

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:17:50PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Mark Costlow <[1]che...@swcp.com> >wrote: > > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > Any hints or clue-by-fours? > >What's the output of 'gpart show'? Zeroing the whole d

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
; When I try to add da1 to the system, I get the following: > > * Run systinstall, Configure, Fdisk, select da1 > > * Get the friendly warning about the large geometry, click "Yes" > > * Hit "A" to use entire disk. Hit "W" to save,

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Mark Costlow wrote: > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > > Any hints or clue-by-fours? > > What's the output of 'gpart show'? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
gt; * Run systinstall, Configure, Fdisk, select da1 > * Get the friendly warning about the large geometry, click "Yes" > * Hit "A" to use entire disk. Hit "W" to save, click "Yes", > select "None" for boot record. >

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Nicholas Mills
k "Yes" > * Hit "A" to use entire disk. Hit "W" to save, click "Yes", > select "None" for boot record. > * Fdisk says: "Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully." > * Per handbook, get out of sysinstall and re-run it, then

Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
Yes" * Hit "A" to use entire disk. Hit "W" to save, click "Yes", select "None" for boot record. * Fdisk says: "Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully." * Per handbook, get out of sysinstall and re-run it, then try to Label. I

Re: Re : Display country selected during sysinstall

2010-04-23 Thread Aiza
De: Aiza Subject: Display country selected during sysinstall "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Jeudi 22 avril 2010, 10h11 How do I display or change the country selected at start of sysinstall? ___ >Alexandre L. wrote: > I think this

Re : Display country selected during sysinstall

2010-04-23 Thread Alexandre L.
0, Aiza a écrit : > De: Aiza > Objet: Display country selected during sysinstall > À: "FreeBSD Questions" > Date: Jeudi 22 avril 2010, 10h11 > How do I display or change the > country selected at start of sysinstall? > ___

Display country selected during sysinstall

2010-04-22 Thread Aiza
How do I display or change the country selected at start of sysinstall? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Re: PXE + sysinstall(8) install.cfg: DHCP Attribute to map install config/policy to system MAC?

2010-04-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
bly a TFTP or NFS URL passed from the DHCP server -> boot loader -> kernel sysctl -> sysinstall(8). Thoughts or other ideas? You can configure sysinstall in your install.cfg to execute shell commands, including any fetch-like command. Some scripting should be possible to do what

PXE + sysinstall(8) install.cfg: DHCP Attribute to map install config/policy to system MAC?

2010-04-21 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
With an NFS stage-2 boot, I suppose you could set: option root-path "/export/${client}Root" etc., but then your 5 meg mfsroot is just extracted 1-per-client. Still seems a bit ugly. It seems like we could teach sysinstall(8) to fetch install.cfg by some standard mechani

sysinstall: "You need to assign disk labels before you can proceed with the installation"

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
en exit back to sysinstall, select custom install, point install root to /newroot and choose distribution, media. On selecting commit, sysinstall immediately presents the message "You need to assign disk labels before you can proceed with the installation", and won't proceed. It seems this o

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
I'll try this - I was just wondering if this was an option > One handy hint when installing is *don't feel you have to do everything > from within sysinstall*.  Your priority should be to get the OS up and > running: everything else you can do from within the OS, which is a f

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:22:58, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP > > but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it For the initial install? Yes -- you're right

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-13 Thread Eitan Adler
> > You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 15:07:07, Eitan Adler wrote: > instead of "ftp through an http proxy" is it possible to get a pure http > mirror? Yes happy-idiot-talk:~:% HEAD -uSe http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ HEAD http

sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-11 Thread Eitan Adler
instead of "ftp through an http proxy" is it possible to get a pure http mirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fre

[SOLVED]Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:34, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training < > p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > >> Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just >> fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but >> that errors o

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 15:27, Adam Vande More wrote: > > Better yet, update your ports tree and install the current version > Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but that errors out, too. -- Yours In Christ,

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:48, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hello! > > Programmer In Training schrieb: >> On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:09 -0600, Programmer In Training >>> wrote: It's really past the point where I can just wipe the system and reinstall, making sure t

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:26, Programmer In Training wrote: > On 02/19/10 13:50, Polytropon wrote: >> And don't miss the documentation about getting "Flash" >> stuff running: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html That all worked except for the last command: nspluginwrapper -v

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
Mehul Ved wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote: thanks.. i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and st

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m wrote: > > > thanks..  i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to > mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can > copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went "enterprise" and > started modif

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
this old fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc... what would be the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? To be honest considering its sooo OLD you're best option is backup and reinstall. And preferably not Fedora of all things, its too dev happy.. CentOS 5.4 wi

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, kalin m wrote: > > hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old > fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be > the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? To be honest considering its soo

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM, kalin m wrote: > > hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old > fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be > the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? Does http://www.redhat.co

sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread kalin m
hi all... realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc... what would be the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? thanks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Friday 19 of February 2010 21:58:53 Erik Norgaard wrote: > On 19/02/10 20:42, Programmer In Training wrote: > > Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done? > > IIRC you first need to load the linux and linprocfs kernel modules and > mount linproc. > > BR, Erik > If you have never used

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Programmer In Training < p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > Everytime I run portsnap update it says it's up to date. So I just > fetched it and am extracting it right now. I'd run freebsd-udpate but > that errors out, too. > > You have to run portsnap fetch update

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Adam Vande More
> > Of course I did forget to install > www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 > > BUT, it doesn't matter that I forgot it. > > [r...@heaven]make install clean > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > => install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in > /usr/ports/distfiles/fla

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Programmer In Training
On 02/19/10 14:50, Programmer In Training wrote: > That all worked except for the last command: > > nspluginwrapper -v -a -i > > Even directly symlinking to > > /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so > > Isn't helping (it's not showing up in about plugins). > > Creating

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

2010-02-19 Thread Polytropon
easier to do it then instead of later. No problem - I'm often installing needed stuff right away when still in sysinstall from the CD. > FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE > > [r...@heaven]portsnap update > Ports tree is already up to date. > > Should I just fetch and extract anyway?

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