How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?

[Pierre Beyssac]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:48:17PM -0700, Ed wrote:
> The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution 
> techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config 
> file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy.  
> We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the 
> install.cfg from the bootable CD.  I've found other folks asking 
> the same question, but to date no answers... 

sysinstall tries to read /install.cfg when starting, so you just
need to put your customized install.cfg on the gzipped MFS root
filesystem where sysinstall itself resides.

I'm using this from a PXE boot but it should work from a CD as well.
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Pierre Beyssac						pb at enst.fr