Project

General

Profile

Support #770

Automated Installation of FreeBSD Using pc-sysinstall

Added by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Category:
Installation
Target version:
FreeBSD 10
Start date:
03/06/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
1.00 h
Spent time:
2.00 h

Description

This is a guide on how I manually setup FreeBSD with a ZFS root on a GPT formatted hard drive using the very useful pc-sysinstall utility. This guide is intended to install FreeBSD using the installation DVD and will work offline.

  • When the FreeBSD Installer Welcome message appears, choose Shell.
  • Get a list of available drives:
    camcontrol devlist
  • Create a pcinstall.local.cfg file:
    vi /tmp/pcinstall.local.cfg
    • And add the following:
      #$FreeBSD$
# Automatic fresh install
installInteractive=no
installMode=fresh
installType=FreeBSD

# Local Installation Media
installMedium=local
localPath=/usr/freebsd-dist
packageType=dist
distFiles=base kernel lib32 
pkgExt=.txz

netSaveDev=AUTO-DHCP

# Disk Setup for ada0
disk0=ada0
partition=ALL
bootManager=none
commitDiskPart

# Partition Setup for ada0(ALL)
disk0-part=ZFS 0 /,/usr,/var
commitDiskLabel

# Optional Components
#installComponents=

# Root Password
rootPass=SuperSecretRootPassword

# Users
userName=bob
userComment=Bob Guy
userPass=SuperSecretPassword
userShell=/bin/csh
userHome=/home/bob
userGroups=wheel,operator
commitUser
  • Run the pc-sysinstall utility with the created config file:
    pc-sysinstall -c /tmp/pcinstall.local.cfg

Resources

Also available in: Atom PDF