Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
Hello

In this emails
<http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=244762+0+current/cvs-src> you
wrote that you don't install freebsd with sysinstall. May I ask you how you
do this? Maybe in some way like this:
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/>?

I'm just curious.

Plenty of options, depending on the available environment and
needs.

1) Add a spare disk to an existing FreeBSD box, and populate
it using installworld/installkernel/distribution targets
and specifying DESTDIR pointing to a mounted spare disk.

2) Boot from live-system on CD-ROM, prepare and partition the
disk(s), install distributions manually through install.sh
scripts.

3) Boot from live-system on CD-ROM, prepare and partition the
disk(s), CVSup, build/install from sources.

4) Boot in a PXE/TFTP/NFS diskless environment (details are
in the Handbook), install distributions using a shell
script as above. Distributions may come from either
remote CD-ROM media, or be prepared by "make release"
and made available over NFS to diskless clients.
A modification of this approach includes a mass deployment
option that involves writing (relatively simple) local
installation scripts that automate the tasks.

Many other options...


Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@xxxxxxxxxxx
FreeBSD committer

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