Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Bender
Here's a snippet of something I've been working on along the same lines - this is /bin/csh syntax, and works on raid0 but should work on regular partitions as well: echo "get raid size..." @ r_tot = `disklabel -p g raid0 | awk '/total bytes/ { print int($3) }'` @ r_root = 1; @ r_tot -= $r_root

Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
After assigning a default disklabel (to a blank disk), can I just feed disklabel the partition information? ie, just this part: pipe into disklabel -E, perhaps?

Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-23 Thread Gaby vanhegan
From Nick Holland: > The problem arises when, if going on to a brand new machine, that the > disk size may be different than the original it is restoring. As > part of the installer (in the OpenBSD install environment, booted off > an openbsd installer CD) I'd like to read the size of the

Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-16 Thread Nick Holland
Gaby vanhegan wrote: > Hi, > > I am still working on a nice automated installation CD system. It is > partially a custom boot CD and partially a site36.tgz file that > installs all the relevant packages, then does a scripted restoration > from out backup server. It's intended for bare-meta

Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-16 Thread Gaby vanhegan
Hi, I am still working on a nice automated installation CD system. It is partially a custom boot CD and partially a site36.tgz file that installs all the relevant packages, then does a scripted restoration from out backup server. It's intended for bare-metal restores in the event of comp