man sysinstall

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:28:39PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 +0000
> Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date.  I
> > > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install.
> > > 
> > > I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels
> > > GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the
> > > list in the man page.
> > > 
> > > Is there anyone in charge of updating this
> > > information?  I have never submitted an update.
> > 
> > I guess that's me.  Could you please raise a PR and send me the number?
> 
> I tried with almost every version of 5.X to get an unattended
> install working.  Never worked.  It seems as if sysinstall
> was looking only for a USB floppy drive.  Originally I started
> looking over the code to send in a PR and perhaps a patch,
> but became busy with other things.

I can't speak for 5.x because I didn't really run it, but this worked
for 6.x a year ago: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/02/12/

The OP's note about adding the kernels line is definitely needed and I'll
fix that (though I would really love a PR for it), but for anything
else, you have to send hardware (a laptop or Soekris, I'm not fussy!) :)

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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