installing 6.0 over the network

[Julian Elischer]

Pawel Worach wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> however what I want is to make it boot into sysinstall rather than 
>> booting
>> into init..
>> how do I make is do this?
>>
>
> I had to modify disc1/boot/loader.conf to look like this
>
> mfsroot_load="YES"
> mfsroot_type="mfs_root"
> mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot"
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0"
>
> so that it loaded the floppy mfs root image from disc1/boot/mfsroot.gz 
> which started sysinstall as init. Last time I tried this was with 
> 5.4-RELEASE but it should still work.


and indeed it does..
thankyou very much.

I wonder if the bootstrap could be modified (teh old daemon page?) to
ask the booting user if that's what he wants?
hmm isn't that what used to happen with the daemon page?

anyway, I'm up.  thanks!

julian