Contributed by jose on from the build-your-own dept.
"O'Reillynet has a good article on how to make modifications to the OpenBSD boot floppy: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/2909Some people like to have mini-systems on a floppy, or they like to be able to adjust things for install time settings. This is a pretty good introduction to building boot floppies, and definitely worth pairing up with similar articles we have run here in the past.It specifically covers making your serial port the tty (so you don't need a keyboard/monitor attached), but mentions that the same method works for any other configuration changes you might want to make."
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By Anonymous Coward () on
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By RC () on
OpenBSD is just like any other Unix, so you can really configure *anything* with a text file/shell script. (eg. FDisk, Disklabel...)
Because the installer is text-only, you should be able to just write a text file with the answers to all the question the installer asks, and give that as the input for 'install'. (eg. install
OpenBSD makes things even easier since the release is just a few tgzs. You could trivially make your own installer that extracts them.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Hmm, what am I missing here? What is it that you would like to do that you can't already do easilly?
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If your definition of "easy" is 10mins worth of work, then you haven't looked at the install code. The question is never whether it could be done, it's how cleanly it could be done (based on my orig. note that it was an ugly solution). Doing a hack-job is a non-issue, but having a really elegant solution is what I am aiming for (which is something that could *not* be done "easily").
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Great to see articles like this!
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By littletmix () on
I mean, if you follow mount the floppy you can see only the
boot file and the kernel. How can I see the install script
code?
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Alternatively, you could follow the source and look at what the install script has.