Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

Ramblewski David David.Ramblewski at atosorigin.com
Wed Nov 17 10:37:19 UTC 2010


Many thanks for your answer, it helps me solving some issues.

David

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De : owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] De la part de Devin Teske
Envoyé : mardi 9 novembre 2010 18:13
À : Ramblewski David
Cc : freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; freebsd-sysinstall at freebsd.org
Objet : Re: Specifying "Install Root" on non interactive sysinstall

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:18 +0100, Ramblewski David wrote:
> 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.

-sysinstall@ would have been a better choice for this question.
Cross-posting my reply.


> 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.

You might just want to try adding "diskInteractive=YES" to your
install.cfg file. That way, you don't have to manually
partition/slice/label your disk _before_ you load the config.

By setting diskInteractive, when installCommit is called, it will:
a. if `disk' is not set (e.g. disk=da0) throw up a menu to select which
disk you want to partition
b. throw you into the FDISK partition editor
c. throw you into diskabel
e. ask which boot code you want to install (if any) to the MBR

Just a suggestion.


> 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.

Put this into your install.cfg:

# Required by distExtractAll (called indirectly by installCommit):
installRoot=/mnt




> 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

Hmmm. Must be an older release. The SMP kernel has gone missing in
FreeBSD-8.x.


> distSetCustom
> ################################
>
> # OK, everything is set.  Do it!
> installCommit
>
> shutdown
> ------------------
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

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