Contributed by grey on from the people who install OpenBSD a LOT might benefit dept.
I have written up a short overview of a hack to do Jumpstart-style installs of OpenBSD.
You can find it here.
I've only glanced over this so far, it looks like this helps automate the actual installer process rather than customizations that one might make as part of the process using the "official" siteXX.tgz and upgrade.site methodologies, but perhaps Brendan can ellucidate matters further with responses here.
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By marklar (202.81.18.30) marklar_@hotmail.com on
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By Brendan Strejcek (128.135.11.3) on
You could do a similar trick with static DHCP leases, I think. That would probably be a little less bogus than a hardcoded nameserver address. In my case, it was easier for me to just ask the user for the hostname though.
That also gives them a chance to back out before the install procedure scribbles all over the disk.
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By Marklar (202.81.18.30) marklar_@hotmail.com on
I'll have a crack at doing this with 3.6 on Alpha when it's released and let you know of any script modifications required.
By bitje (62.59.31.68) lj@2u2.nu on
to know the mac-address too. Would be excellent if this stuff would
be incorporated in the OpenBSD source tree.
By Matt Van Mater (68.100.237.244) on
What i'd really like to see is something more akin to an answer file that doesn't require customization of the install scripts. It would be nice if you could pre-generate an answer file or add a last step to the install script that saves the selections you made to an answer file for future use. This may be speaking heresy, but I've always liked that little feature in Mandrake's install routine. I'd also like to use a simple calculator like bc to allocate partition space based upon percentage (good for scripted installs where disk size may not be static).
I was thinking about writing something using expect, but the few times I've skimmed the language's specs it seemed a little overcomplicated. Anyone try making something like this before in expect?
By Anonymous Coward (216.135.89.5) on
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By Matt Van Mater (65.205.28.104) on
I know they're still getting started, but their website has a slight lack of information.