On 2015/04/09 01:53, Alexander Hall wrote: > On April 8, 2015 9:13:27 AM GMT+02:00, Stuart Henderson > <st...@openbsd.org> wrote: > >On 2015/04/07 20:02, Alex Wilson wrote: > >> On the topic of local tweaks to autoinstall, I was trying to use it > >for a > >> bunch of blades with very limited disk the other day, and I really > >wanted to > >> make them just create a single slice for / and some swap. > >.. > >> So that then I could put > >> > >> Use (W)hole disk, use the = W > >> Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout = C > >> disklabel = D\na b\n\n4g\n\na a\n\n\n\n/\np\nq\n > >> > >> in my install.conf > > > >I think this diff has been written a few times now, iirc everybody > >settled on the same method.. > > We strive to make install.conf readable, and not contain semi-binary > data. Also, the question asked should be specific enough to allow for > more than one disk (unless we only do the disklabel for the primary > disk?). > > I haven't put a great effort into it, but I'd rather present a > possibility to suck in a disklabel from a separate file and allow the > user to point out said file. IIRC, krw@ made some changes that improved > that possibility. > > /Alexander
Are people really wanting to change fsize, bsize and work out offsets here? I'd have thought they want to say things like "I want 2G /, 2G /home, 8G /var, 4G /usr, 20G /usr/local, and split the rest of the disk between /var/www and /data", or "this is all great except this humongous /home, change it to 4G and put the rest in /mail". If I'm not mistaken disklabel only looks at the first letter, so it could be a bit more self-documenting, disklabel = Default\nadd b\n\n4g\n\nadd a\n\n\n\n/\nprint\nquit\n or neatened (to some eyes) with an s_;_\n_g disklabel = Default;add b;;4g;;add a;;;;/;print;quit; For the rest of the autoinstall file, while the questions and answers are readable, they aren't documented, so basing it on a manual installer run seems the only way to get started (it could even be automated from a serial port capture), the disklabel -E "language" seems a reasonable fit with this doesn't it?
