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.


maybe the initpath can be changed.. that would be even simpler.. 
wouldn't even require the
mfsimage in that case.