install.cfg disklabel customization question

[Curtis Almond]

Good suggestion on using bsdlabel.  Unfortunately I am required to use
FreeBSD 4.6.2 which does not contain this utility and disklabel
requires one to invoke an editor to define the new label.

What I resorted to doing was having netboot create /usr100 and then
later overwrite the /etc/fstab via an installation package that sets
noauto for the label.

Curtis


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:38:19 +0000, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Curtis Almond wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know how to make /usr100 not mounted at boot time?
> 
> Edit /etc/fstab and add the 'noauto' flag to the appropriate line.
> Something like this:
> 
>     /dev/ad0s2f   /usr100  ufs  rw,noauto  2   2
> 
> > Or even better....
> > How can I create the ad0s2-4 (ad0s2f after boot) label but have
> > sysinstall not newfs it during netboot?
> 
> You shouldn't need to recreate the disk or partition labels every time
> you reboot, unless you are wiping and re-installing most of the disk
> each time.
> 
> If you're using sysinstall(8) to do an automatic install as part of your
> netboot process, then as far as I can tell, there's no way using the
> scripted interface to tell it to create a UFS partition but not newfs or
> mount it -- although that's easy enough using sysinstall interactively.
> 
> I'd be thinking more along the lines of ditching sysinstall(8) entirely
> for that purpose and using fdisk(8), bsdlabel(8) and newfs(8) directly.
> 
>        Cheers,
> 
>        Matthew
> 
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