Subject: Re: Suggestions for easing 1.1 i386 installations
To: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 10/10/1995 09:24:12
Jordan,
> I guess the bottom line is this: Are you guys firmly set in the
> direction you want to go vis-a-vis installation tools? I've done 3
I don't know the answer to that.... :-)
If you are interested in having a look at my config managment tool,
you may find it useful. IMHO it _is_ the framework you spoke of. The
big advantage of my approach is that your install/setup scripts can be
much simpler because:
*BSD/2.0.5/i386/config.d/S10disk
does not need to know anything about anything but i386 disk
systems... on FreeBSD.
Same goes for
*BSD/1.1/sparc/config.d/S10disk
But newfs'ing and populating the filesystems which is reasonably
generic can be handled by
*BSD/config.d/S20newfs
and the most generic stuff done by
config.d/S*
I've been using this tool to setup SunOS, Solaris and of course NetBSD
systems for some time now. If you run it with the ksh it should also
handle HP-UX ok (/bin/sh too broken).
Anyway, if you are interested check out:
ftp://ftp.quick.com.au/pub/unix/
look for:
cfg-slides.ps.gz slides for my talk tonight.
config-sh.tar.gz the tool itself.
configs-example.tar.gz an example configs tree.
eventually there will also be a configs.ps.gz describing the thing in
more detail.
Note, the above directory is mirrored at:
ftp://ftp.telstra.com.au/mirror/ftp.quick.com.au/unix/
which is on a much faster link, so look there first.
--sjg