Fwd: Using PC-Sysinstall for automated network installs of FreeBSD

[Mark Saad]

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> On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Mark Saad wrote:
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>>> Useful paths on /export, /export/install/freebsd/9.1/{i386,amd64}
>>> this is the contents of the install media rsync'd to a local filesystem
>> 
>> Do you have a way to choose either i386 or amd64 installs?
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> For my setup no , I just manually change the symlinks . 
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>> 
>>> 5 I changed my rc.conf to start a simple shell script and not the
>>> bsdinstall bits
>> 
>> Maybe you mean "/etc/rc.local" there?
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> Yes that was a typo rc.local 
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>>> export TERM=vt220
>>> 
>>> echo "o  PC-SYSINSTALL "
>>> exec /conf/picker.sh
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>> 
>> Trying to start this from SYSLINUX almost works.  My menu config just does
>> 
>> menu label FreeBSD 9 Install
>> pxe {serverip}:/usr/tftpboot/images/fbsd9ins/boot/pxeboot
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>> The kernel boots, it gets to
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>> Trying to mount root from nfs: []...
>> NFS ROOT: {serverip}:/usr/tftpboot/images/fbsd9ins
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>> and then it stops and just sits.  NFS mount of that directory works on another system.  Anything obvious I should check?  I know pxeboot needs to be recompiled for some things, but can't recall the details.
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> Well I would check to see if your have a  default loader build , if your loader was rebuilt with HAS_TFTPSUPPORT or something like that , it will not work .  
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> What's in your exports file ? Also what's in your dhcpd config ? 
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> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
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