about unattended installation

[Devin Teske]

On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Amitabh Kant wrote:

> 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
> 

Cool!

I'm the maintainer of FreeBSD Druid (sysinstall-based 9.x installer).

When 9.1 is officially announced, I'll start rolling a new 9.1 based installer (right now, still just 8.3 and 9.0 are the latest offerings).

I'm also the maintainer of bsdconfig.

I'd like to also think I'm that last unofficial maintainer of sysinstall (I've actually patched it in stable/9 in the past 90 days).

And, as-of the last DevSummit, I've been nominated the new maintainer of bsdinstall (with nwhitehorn's blessing).

So…

At some point, you'll see me go rabid on all the PR's in the freebsd-sysinstall pool, but right now I'm still in the coal-mines dredging out the framework to accept all these missing features.
-- 
Devin



> 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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