Sysinstall Command Syntax

[Tom-i]

Hi guys,

can anyone tell what the correct syntax for a custom command in a sysinstall install.cfg for freebsd 9.0 is?

This does not work:

command=/stand/ifconfig em0 up
system
command=/stand/dhclient em0
system

even a simple

command="echo 123 >> /tmp/test.txt" 
system

is not executed.

I have never seen a project with such a bad and outdated documentation like freebsd. Sorry.

Thank you!

 

[lme@]

I've never seen such a bad troll.
Is http://freebsd.org/handbook not enough documentation? Outdated? Perhaps it says nothing about scripting sysinstall but it covers pretty much anything else.

Try PC-BSD, use the installer to install a plain vanilla FreeBSD, just up to the point when you need to commit the actual installation, right click the desktop, start an xterm, copy away /tmp/*.cfg and edit it.
Documentation: http://trac.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall/examples/README

 

[Tom-i]

Thank you.

Can you please answer my question?

I just want to execut my command in my install.cfg .

Is this simple question too much?

Plese give me the command to "echo "123" >> /tmp/test.txt" within /install.cfg so that test.txt is done on the mfsroot´s /tmp.

It just does not as documented.

So what is your matter?

 

[Tom-i]

Sorry the typos. Why can´t i edit here?

I use this guide: http://www.locolomo.org/howto/pxeboot/article.html#SCRIPTING-SYSINSTALL

I dont use pc-sysinstall scripts and dont want to.

 

[graudeejs]

Sorry the typos. Why can´t i edit here?

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11799

about sysinstall...
well, 99.9% users don't care how it works
where advanced users probably don't even use it at all {i haven't used it for almost 2 years now. I use fixit mode to install FreeBSD}

 

[Tom-i]

So there is nobody responsible for sysinstall´s install.cfg here in the community?

 

[DutchDaemon]

This is a user community, the developers are on the mailing lists (well, almost all of them anyway).

 

[Tom-i]

Ok no Problem, can you please point me to the right mailing list?

 

[DutchDaemon]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL

freebsd-questions is usually a good place to start.