I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-) install. 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... Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated! -- Ed Braaten DuPont Compatibility Validation Lab Intel Corp, DuPont, WA +1 (253) 371-2515 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030617/ce12b528/attachment.bin
Harald Neuffer
2003-Jun-18 02:55 UTC
How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?
Ed wrote:> > I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD > so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-) > install. > > 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... > > Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!Hi, have think about booting and installing your FreeBSD machines over the net. Have a look to http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml I assume you have Intel network cards in your computers, thus they should boot via PXE. Hope this helps, Harald
Mike Tancsa
2003-Jun-18 10:48 UTC
How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?
Another option that might work for you is ghost4unix
(http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/). If you have a lot of
identical systems to create, it works quite well.
---Mike
At 11:55 AM 18/06/2003 +0200, Harald Neuffer wrote:>Ed wrote:
> >
> > I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD
> > so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-)
> > install.
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>Hi,
>
>have think about booting and installing your FreeBSD machines over the
>net. Have a look to
>http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml
>
>I assume you have Intel network cards in your computers, thus they
>should boot via PXE.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Harald
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Pierre Beyssac
2003-Jun-18 11:06 UTC
How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?
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. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr
How can eliminate the kernel from logging the following: Jun 18 12:45:40 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 Jun 18 13:09:05 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 Jun 18 13:10:32 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 Jun 18 13:29:49 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 Jun 18 13:29:49 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 Jun 18 13:31:59 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 There is a server on the network that has multiple interfaces and it is switching them over and over again all the time and fill my logs up with this. Is there a way to make it not log this particular event. Here is the output of `uname -a`: FreeBSD georgi.xxxxx.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:48:15PM -0700, Hristo Georgiev wrote:> How can eliminate the kernel from logging the > following: > Jun 18 12:45:40 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 > Jun 18 13:09:05 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 > Jun 18 13:10:32 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 > Jun 18 13:29:49 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 > Jun 18 13:29:49 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 on rl0 > Jun 18 13:31:59 georgi /kernel: arp: 10.39.224.2 moved > from 00:b0:da:ac:dc:89 to 00:b0:da:ac:dc:88 on rl0 > > > There is a server on the network that has multiple > interfaces and it is switching them over and over > again all the time and fill my logs up with this. Is > there a way to make it not log this particular event. > > Here is the output of `uname -a`: > FreeBSD georgi.xxxxx.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD > 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 > root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386Try to look at this sysctl: net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface: 1 Serg N. Voronkov, Sibitex JSC, Tyumen, Russia.