On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 04:53:58 +0100, Predrag Punosevac
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have a few installation related questions. Please feel free to point
me to a manual pages.
1. I see that it is possible to set up PXE server from the installer. Is
there a way to have fully unattended installation of DF? I am thinking
in my head of a scenario in which one has to install multiple identical
data storage machine which will have just different LAN IPs and
hostnames.
Check out rconfig(8). It seems to be made for such kinds of tasks, but I
haven't used it yet. There are scripts for various scenarios (normal
install, LVM striped, encrypted, etc.) for it in
/usr/share/example/rconfig. Hope that helps.
2. I see that during the regular installation I am not allowed to use
special characters for root or for that matter user password. For
example I can't use character @. However once I am done installation I
have no problem changing root or any other password in anything I like.
Is there a logic behind this which I am missing?
Yeah this is a limitation of the way how the installer sets the password.
We should somehow fix this.
3. I played with installer back and fourth and I might be missing this
one. Namely I would like to be able to install DF on UFS RAID 1 or even
better have hammer mirror of the installation disk onto a second disk.
Now in the second scenario one obvious problem is that hammer mirror is
read only. I don't see any options how to do this from installer. Is
this supported at all?
The installer does not yet support this out of the box, I'm afraid.
Sascha
