howto make sysintall

iv gan devif0 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 10:12:01 GMT 2005


Yep that's write.
but there is no way to script a generic install so to install on
different drives with different sizes.
So for that there is maybe a way to change something in the sysintall
sources. But without any success for the moment

Thanks
Ivo

On 8/10/05, Glenn Dawson <glenn at antimatter.net> wrote:
> At 02:39 AM 8/10/2005, iv gan wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >I try to make a custom installation of FreeBSD 5.3 in a way that there
> >are no questions during the process but rather it detects the hard
> >disk size makes the partitions etc...
> >For the moment I smply try to compile sysinstall (cd
> >/usr/src/usr.sbin/sysintall && make all)
> >and it compiles without any problem. The size on the output file is
> >about 1,2M. The problem comes when I put it in a mfsroot file and when
> >it loads on startup. The sysinstall simply don't start. In the same
> >time on the secont vty after 20secs I got a messages like "pid NNN
> >(sh) uid 0, was killed: out of swap space" or something like it.
> >So my question is is there a correct manner to make the sysinstall
> >(like going to /usr/src and then make everything around). The original
> >size is about 2.2 Megs and the one I got is about a 1meg less. It is
> >compiled staticly (NOSHARED=yes it have to mean that no??)
> >For the moment i don't touch the code. Just compile it to try. The
> >newly compiled sysinstall is running when it is executed from the
> >directory where it is situated (like ./sysintall).
> >Hm I thing thats all I have like symptoms.
> >Any suggestions?
> >Or better is there a way to script an Auto partitioning of the hard
> >disk without touching the code.
> 
> The bulk of the sysinstall man page covers how to script an install.
> 
> -Glenn
> 
> 
> >thanks and good luck to allz
> >
> >Ivo
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