Automating a 5.4 install

[Thomas Linton]

For problem 2 have a look at:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/103093.html


On 11/30/05, Raistlin Majere <raistlin at e-raist.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use netboot to automate the install of FreeBSD 5.4.  I can
> get new servers to boot, mount the NFS partition which has all the data
> from the CD on it (taken from an iso) but I've run into two problems:
>
> 1) FreeBSD complains about my disk geometry, even though what it
> suggests matches what's in the BIOS it's coming up with some wierd
> numbers and halting my automated install so I can tell it "use the more
> likely geometry"
>
> 2) after the OS install it complains that it can't find packages.  It
> finds the packages directory, parses the index file, but then it can't
> find them.  The error on screen is "Please remove disc #0 from your
> drive, and add disc #1" and on tty2 the debug messages are: "DEBUG:
> package check for xxx returns failure."
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -=Alexander
>
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