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| author | dwhite <dwhite@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-10-08 05:20:06 +0000 |
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| committer | dwhite <dwhite@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-10-08 05:20:06 +0000 |
| commit | 6f53851bb1ae55b0f0ba4a6ebd8eee2a8fdfd4a7 (patch) | |
| tree | dabd86e90ab43ac9478a67d38a3dcf7e8b095603 /release/picobsd/doc | |
| parent | 7bbfacece4e8e603e2d65f17d8b94ab81aa21484 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-6f53851bb1ae55b0f0ba4a6ebd8eee2a8fdfd4a7.zip FreeBSD-src-6f53851bb1ae55b0f0ba4a6ebd8eee2a8fdfd4a7.tar.gz | |
Add documentation for the PicoBSD install floppy.
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/picobsd/doc/src/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/picobsd/doc/src/installflp.html | 99 |
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diff --git a/release/picobsd/doc/src/Makefile b/release/picobsd/doc/src/Makefile index 98a083b..c5f4aeb 100644 --- a/release/picobsd/doc/src/Makefile +++ b/release/picobsd/doc/src/Makefile @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DATE!="date" DOCS= bugs.html faq.html hardware.html how2build.html \ - intrinsics.html intro.html TODO.html + intrinsics.html intro.html TODO.html installflp.html all: ../../Version for i in ${DOCS}; \ diff --git a/release/picobsd/doc/src/installflp.html b/release/picobsd/doc/src/installflp.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0ead20 --- /dev/null +++ b/release/picobsd/doc/src/installflp.html @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> +<!-- $FreeBSD$ --> +<html> + <head> + <title>Configuring the PicoBSD install floppy</title> + </head> + + <body> + <h1>Configuring the PicoBSD install floppy</h1> + + <p>The PicoBSD Install Floppy is engineered to be flexible since every + site has their own needs for an automated install solution. The + base package contains tools and frameworks for further + customization. </p> + + <h2>Generating an Install Image</h2> + + <p>Central to the design of the install floppy is a tarball image of + the operating system. The install floppy downloads and extracts + the image from a master server. </p> + + <p>To generate the install image:</p> + + <ol> + <li>Install and configure a machine as it should be + installed. + <ul> + <li><em>Make the template machine as close to the target + machines as possible.</em> System-specific files such as + <tt>/etc/fstab</tt> can cause problems if they are + specific to a particular disk setup, such as multiple SCSI + disks in the template vs. single IDE disks in the target. + <li><em>Try to keep the template as small as practical.</em> + The more packages you install on the template, the larger + the image becomes. + </ul> + <li>Use tar to create the image. This shell script is useful + for automating the process. + <blockquote><pre> +#!/bin/sh +TARBALL="/fbsdimage.tgz" +GZIP="-9" + +tar -cpvzf ${TARBALL} --totals --exclude '/proc/*' --exclude '/var/tmp/*' \ + --exclude '/var/log/*' --exclude '/tmp/*' --exclude '/fbsdimage.tgz' / + </pre></blockquote> + <ul> + <li>Use the '--exclude' argument to remove files from the + image. + <li>Don't forget to exclude the image itself or your tarball + will be much larger than it should. + <li>The <b>GZIP</b> environment variable sets arguments to the + gzip command called by tar's z option. + </ul> + <li>Copy the image file to your load server into a public FTP + directory. + </ol> + + <h2>Configuring the Install Floppy</h2> + + <p>Once the install floppy has been built using the PicoBSD build + script, mount the floppy and modify the install + script, <tt>/floppy/etc/doinstall</tt>. <tt>doinstall</tt> is + called from rc on startup to install the disk image and perform + whatever other setup tasks are necessary. The script can set + network parameters, configure applications, select kernels, or + whatever else a shell script can do. A handful of useful + utilities is included on the disk to ease automated installation.</p> + + <p>At minumum, set the URL to the FTP server holding the disk + image. If you wish, uncomment and modify to taste any of the + code blocks provided.</p> + + <p>By default, the install floppy:</p> + <ul> + <li>Creates one large FreeBSD slice on the first IDE disk (wd0). + <li>Creates a 256MB swap partition and the rest for a large + root partition. + <li>Formats the large partition using <tt>newfs</tt> with + default parameters. ' + <li>Downloads the image via FTP and feeds it directly into + <tt>cpio</tt> for extraction. + </ul> + + <P>To modify the disk formatting parameters, modify the + <tt>/floppy/etc/prepdisk</tt> script. <tt>prepdisk</tt> is a + simple awk script that feeds directly into <tt>disklabel</tt>. + Simply edit the generated partition table to taste.</P> + + + + <hr> + <address><a href="mailto:dwhite@freebsd.org">Doug White</a></address> +<!-- Created: Thu Oct 7 21:42:17 PDT 1999 --> +<!-- hhmts start --> +Last modified: Thu Oct 7 22:18:22 PDT 1999 +<!-- hhmts end --> + </body> +</html> |
