Re: Diskless installs?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 06:36:38PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> I can of course unpack sets, but my experience with older versions
> leads me to expect that there are various other things that need to be
> done after unpacking the sets to produce a bootable system.

Oh, you are right - we should document the manual setup steps somewhere.

It is not a long list. Assuming you are in single user mode on the new
client machine with all sets unpacked and / writable:

 - run: cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV all
 - run: certctl rehash
 - create /etc/fstab according to your needs
 - create /etc/rc.conf according to your needs
 - set root password
 - add entropy if needed (you can use sysinst and the config menu
   to check + fix it [if there is no entropy option in the menu
   you are good] or check sysctl kern.entropy output)

and then go multiuser.

Martin