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shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. It contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. It supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels. While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended scripted installations. In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. As such, it is useful in its own right. This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of PC-BSD. However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences are discovered and corrected. A text-based front-end is in the works. For the GUI-based front-end, you can use the PC-BSD distribution. Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the BSDcan site: http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for the FreeBSD integration. Kris wrote the rest. This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo. http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall Submitted by: kris@ Sponsored by: iX Systems
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start-autoinstall - HELP
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About:
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start-autoinstall is used when performing automated installationsr. It is able
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to configure networking with provided settings, and fetch an installation script from
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http / ftp server. This allows media to be created which fetches dynamic configuration
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options from a server-side supplier.
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Usage:
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pc-sysinstall start-autoinstall <config>
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Config Syntax:
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The configuration file for start-autoinstall can contain the following options:
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pc_config: <value>
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- Location of the pc-sysinstall installation configuration file, can be local
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or start with http:// or ftp:// to fetch from a remote system.
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shutdown_cmd: <value>
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- Command to execute post-installation, such as "shutdown -p now" or other.
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confirm_install: (YES/NO)
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- Prompt on the console to begin installation. Defaults to YES.
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Warning: Setting this to NO will start an installation as soon as start-autoinstall
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is run. (I.E. after booting some install media) It may be dangerous if a disk is left
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in a drive and the system is turned on!
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nic_config: (DHCP-ALL / <cfg>)
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- When set to DHCP-ALL, the software will attempt to get a network address from DHCP on
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any / all detected NICS. If set to some other command, it will be used as an argument
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to "ifconfig" to enable networking.
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nic_dns: <value>
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- Use the following DNS server for networking
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nic_gateway: <gateway>
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- Use the following default route / gateway for networking
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