Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

Ramblewski David David.Ramblewski at atosorigin.com
Tue Nov 9 09:46:20 UTC 2010


Hi,

I'm looking for a solution to jumpstart FreeBSD on an non interactive way.
The solution provided by the Handbook recommend to use sysinstall program, that's what I'm trying to do.

The servers are using PXE boot to mount an mfsbsd filesystem, everything works as expected until now.
I manually create the slice, labels and mount the partitions on "/mnt" partition.

Then I manually launch "sysinstall loadConfig"  to install packages classes but I didn't find the way to precise an "Install Root" for /mnt whereas it works if I did it on a interactive way using the options menu.
Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Here is my install.cfg file:
------------------
# Turn on extra debugging.
debug=YES

# Ok, this ought to turn off ALL prompting, don't complain to me that you
# lost a machine because you netbooted it on  the same subnet as this
# box
nonInteractive=YES
noWarn=YES
tryDHCP=YES

# My host specific data
hostname=polbsd
domainname=priv.atos.fr

################################
# Which installation device to use
nfs=10.28.222.1:/opt/local/jumpstart/tftpboot/BSD/NFS
netDev=bge0
mediaSetNFS
################################

################################
# Select which distributions we want.
dists= base SMP manpages ports
distSetCustom
################################

# OK, everything is set.  Do it!
installCommit

shutdown
------------------


Thanks,

David




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