about unattended installation

[Amitabh Kant]

Won't be able to help you much, but bsdinstall seems to be using gpart
rather than fdisk. This page has a nice explanation on how to use gpart:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

As for sysinstall, it's not being mainitned officially, but
http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/ is using sysinstall


Amitabh


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre <
egoitz at ramattack.net> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> One little question… I'm trying to have ready our new unattended FreeBSD
> installation system. Until now, I have been using Sysinstall scripting file
> but now with 9.1 out I think it's moment to start using BSDInstaller in the
> unattended installation process. I have seen the new installer, works
> basically like an script…. my real question is… before I did in install.cfg
> something like :
>
> ################################
> disk=da0
> partition=all
> bootManager=standard
> diskPartitionEditor
>
> ################################
>
> da0s1-1=ufs 3072000 /
> da0s1-2=swap 8096000 none
> da0s1-3=ufs 20485760 /var 1
> da0s1-4=ufs 30720760 /usr 1
> da0s1-5=ufs 0 /expert 1
> diskLabelEditor
>
> ################################
>
> Now I assume there's no way of getting this same through any command like…
> 'bsdinstall partedit _______________________' am I wrong??. So I assume all
> should be done by hand like this example of the Handbook :
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1
> # fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk
> # bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it.
> # bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created and add any
> partitions.
> # mkdir -p /1
> # newfs /dev/da1s1e # Repeat this for every partition you created.
> # mount /dev/da1s1e /1 # Mount the partition(s)
> # vi /etc/fstab # Add the appropriate entry/entries to your /etc/fstab.
>
> In the auto script….
>
> am I wrong?.  If the answer is yes… could you point me to some
> documentation in order to be able to complete all this doc. Apart from all
> this… is Sysinstall going to be maintained in parallel?.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Best regards!
>
>
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