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32 .Nd system installation and configuration tool
40 is a utility for installing and configuring
43 It is the first utility invoked by the
46 floppy and is also copied into
50 systems for use in later configuring the system.
54 program is generally invoked without arguments for the default
55 behavior, where the main installation/configuration menu is presented.
57 On those occasions where it is deemed necessary to invoke a subsystem
58 of sysinstall directly, however, it is also possible to do so by
59 naming the appropriate function entry points on the command line.
60 Since this action is essentially identical to running an installation
61 script, each command-line argument corresponding to a line of script,
62 the reader is encouraged to read the section on scripting for more
63 information on this feature.
66 is essentially nothing more than a monolithic C program with
67 the ability to write MBRs and disk labels (through the services
70 library) and install distributions or packages onto new and
73 systems. It also contains some extra intelligence
74 for running as a replacement for
76 when it's invoked by the
78 installation boot procedure. It
79 assumes very little in the way of additional utility support and
80 performs most file system operations by calling the relevant syscalls
88 library to do user interaction with simple ANSI line graphics, color
89 support for which is enabled by either running on a syscons VTY or some
90 other color-capable terminal emulator (newer versions of xterm will support
95 This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will
96 eventually be replaced.
99 may be either driven interactively through its various internal menus
100 or run in batch mode, driven by an external script. Such a script may
101 be loaded and executed in one of 3 ways:
103 .It Sy "LOAD_CONFIG_FILE"
106 is compiled with LOAD_CONFIG_FILE set in the environment
107 (or in the Makefile) to some value, then that value will
108 be used as the filename to automatically look for and load
111 starts up and with no user interaction required.
112 This option is aimed primarily at large sites who wish to create a
113 single prototype install for multiple machines with largely identical
114 configurations and/or installation options.
118 is run interactively, that is to say in the default manner, it will
119 bring up a main menu which contains a "load config file" option.
120 Selecting this option will prompt for the name of a script file which
121 it then will attempt to load from a DOS or UFS formatted floppy.
122 .It Sy "COMMAND LINE"
123 Each command line argument is treated as a script directive
126 is run in multi-user mode. Execution ends either by explicit request
129 directive), upon reaching the end of the argument list or on error.
133 /stand/sysinstall _ftpPath=ftp://ziggy/pub/ mediaSetFTP configPackages
138 for FTP installation media (using the server `ziggy') and then
139 bring up the package installation editor, exiting when finished.
142 A script is a list of one or more directives, each directive taking
154 is the assignment of some internal
156 variable, e.g. "ftpPass=FuNkYChiKn", and
158 is the name of an internal
160 function, e.g. "mediaSetFTP", and
162 is a single-line comment for documentation purposes (ignored by
163 sysinstall). Each directive must be by itself on a single line,
164 functions taking their arguments by examining known variable names.
165 This requires that you be sure to assign the relevant variables before
166 calling a function which requires them.
170 variable can be assigned before each directive: this will cause any error
171 detected while processing the directive itself to be ignored.
174 will automatically reset to the default "unassigned" every time a directive is
177 When and where a function depends on the settings of one or more variables
178 will be noted in the following table:
180 .Sy "Function Glossary" :
182 .Bl -tag -width indent
184 Invoke the Anonymous FTP configuration menu.
189 Select which routing daemon you wish to use, potentially
190 loading any required 3rd-party routing daemons as necessary.
193 .Bl -tag -width indent
195 can be set to the name of the desired routing daemon,
200 otherwise it is prompted for.
203 Configure host as an NFS server.
208 Configure host as a user of the Network Time Protocol.
211 .Bl -tag -width indent
215 that is to say the name of the server to sync from.
218 Configure host to support PC NFS.
221 .Bl -tag -width indent
223 The name of the PCNFSD package to load if necessary (defaults to hard coded
227 Bring up the interactive package management menu.
232 Add users and/or groups to the system.
236 .It configXEnvironment
237 Configure the X display subsystem.
241 .It diskPartitionEditor
242 Invokes the disk partition (MBR) editor.
245 .Bl -tag -width findx
247 The disk geometry, as a cyls/heads/sectors formatted string. Default: no
250 Set to disk partitioning type or size, its value being
252 in order to use only remaining free space for
255 to use the entire disk for
257 but maintain a proper partition
262 partition (first found),
265 .Dq dangerously dedicated
270 blocks of available free space to a new
273 Default: Interactive mode.
277 to signify the installation of a boot manager,
279 to signify installation of a "standard" non-boot MGR DOS
282 to indicate that no change to the boot manager is desired.
286 Note: Nothing is actually written to disk by this function, a explicit call to
287 .Ar diskPartitionWrite
288 being required for that to happen.
289 .It diskPartitionWrite
290 Causes any pending MBR changes (typically from the
291 .Ar diskPartitionEditor
292 function) to be written out.
297 Invokes the disk label editor. This is a bit trickier from a script
298 since you need to essentially label everything inside each
300 (type 0xA5) partition created by the
301 .Ar diskPartitionEditor
302 function, and that requires knowing a few rules about how things are
303 laid out. When creating a script to automatically allocate disk space
304 and partition it up, it is suggested that you first perform the
305 installation interactively at least once and take careful notes as to
306 what the slice names will be, then and only then hardwiring them into
309 For example, let's say you have a SCSI disk on which you've created a new
311 partition in slice 2 (your DOS partition residing in slice 1).
312 The slice name would be
318 being your DOS primary
319 partition). Now let's further assume that you have 500MB in this
320 partition and you want to sub-partition that space into root, swap,
321 var and usr file systems for
323 Your invocation of the
325 function might involve setting the following variables:
326 .Bl -tag -width findx
327 .It Li "da0s2-1=ufs 40960 /"
328 A 20MB root file system (all sizes are in 512 byte blocks).
329 .It Li "da0s2-2=swap 131072 /"
330 A 64MB swap partition.
331 .It Li "da0s2-3=ufs 204800 /var"
332 A 100MB /var file system.
333 .It Li "da0s2-4=ufs 0 /usr 1"
334 With the balance of free space (around 316MB) going to the /usr
335 file system and with soft-updates enabled (the argument following
336 the mount point, if non-zero, means to set the soft updates flag).
341 for mounting or erasing existing partitions as well as creating new
342 ones. Using the previous example again, let's say that we also wanted
343 to mount our DOS partition and make sure that an
345 entry is created for it in the new installation. Before calling the
347 function, we simply add an additional line:
351 before the call. This tells the label editor that you want to mount
354 and not to attempt to newfs it (not that
356 would attempt this for a DOS partition in any case, but it could just
357 as easily be an existing UFS partition being named here and the 2nd
358 field is non-optional).
360 Note: No file system data is actually written to disk until an
365 Writes out all pending disklabel information and creates and/or mounts any
366 file systems which have requests pending from the
373 Resets all selected distributions to the empty set (no distributions selected).
378 Allows the selection of a custom distribution set (e.g. not just on of the
379 existing "canned" sets) with no user interaction.
382 .Bl -tag -width indent
384 List of distributions to load. Possible distribution values are:
385 .Bl -tag -width indentxx
387 The base binary distribution.
389 Miscellaneous documentation
393 Manual pages (unformatted)
395 Pre-formatted manual pages
397 Profiled libraries for developers.
399 Dictionary information (for tools like spell).
401 GNU info files and other extra docs.
403 Encryption binaries and libraries.
418 a.out binary compatibility
434 The ports collection.
442 /usr/src/[top level files]
472 /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf
474 XFree86 official sources.
476 XFree86 contributed sources.
478 XFree86 3.3.6 binaries.
480 XFree86 3.3.6 configuration files.
482 XFree86 3.3.6 documentation.
484 XFree86 3.3.6 HTML documentation.
486 XFree86 3.3.6 libraries.
488 XFree86 3.3.6 server link-kit for PC98 machines.
490 XFree86 3.3.6 server link-kit for standard machines.
492 XFree86 3.3.6 manual pages.
494 XFree86 3.3.6 programmer's distribution.
496 XFree86 3.3.6 postscript documentation.
498 XFree86 3.3.6 graphical setup tool.
499 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9480
500 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 8-bit (256 color) PEGC-480 server.
501 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9EGC
502 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 4-bit (16 color) EGC server.
503 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9GA9
504 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 GA-968V4/PCI (S3 968) server.
505 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9GAN
506 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 GANB-WAP (cirrus) server.
507 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9LPW
508 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 PowerWindowLB (S3) server.
509 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9MGA
510 [DESCRIPTION MISSING]
511 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9NKV
512 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 NKV-NEC (cirrus) server.
513 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9NS3
514 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 NEC (S3) server.
515 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9SPW
516 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 SKB-PowerWindow (S3) server.
517 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9SVG
518 [DESCRIPTION MISSING]
519 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9TGU
520 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 Cyber9320 and TGUI9680 server.
521 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9WEP
522 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 WAB-EP (cirrus) server.
523 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9WS
524 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 WABS (cirrus) server.
525 .It Li PC98-Servers/X9WSN
526 XFree86 3.3.6 PC98 WSN-A2F (cirrus) server.
528 XFree86 3.3.6 3D Labs server.
530 XFree86 3.3.6 8514 server.
532 XFree86 3.3.6 8 bit AGX server.
534 XFree86 3.3.6 #9 Imagine I128 server.
536 XFree86 3.3.6 ATI Mach8 server.
538 XFree86 3.3.6 ATI Mach32 server.
540 XFree86 3.3.6 ATI Mach64 server.
542 XFree86 3.3.6 monochrome server.
544 XFree86 3.3.6 P9000 server.
546 XFree86 3.3.6 S3 server.
548 XFree86 3.3.6 S3 Virge server.
550 XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA server.
552 XFree86 3.3.6 VGA16 server.
554 XFree86 3.3.6 ET4000/W32, /W32i and /W32p server.
556 Server for TGA cards (alpha architecture only).
558 XFree86 3.3.6 nested X server.
560 XFree86 3.3.6 virtual frame-buffer X server.
562 XFree86 3.3.6 base font set.
564 XFree86 3.3.6 100DPI font set.
566 XFree86 3.3.6 Cyrillic font set.
568 XFree86 3.3.6 scalable font set.
570 XFree86 3.3.6 non-english font set.
572 XFree86 3.3.6 font server.
576 Selects the standard Developer's distribution set.
580 .It distSetXDeveloper
581 Selects the standard X Developer's distribution set.
585 .It distSetKernDeveloper
586 Selects the standard kernel Developer's distribution set.
591 Selects the standard user distribution set.
596 Selects the standard X user's distribution set.
601 Selects the very minimum distribution set.
605 .It distSetEverything
606 Selects the full whack - all available distributions.
611 Interactively select encryption subcomponents.
616 Interactively select source subcomponents.
621 Interactively select XFree86 3.3.6 subcomponents.
626 Install all currently selected distributions (requires that
627 media device also be selected).
632 Install (if necessary) an HTML documentation browser and go to the
633 HTML documentation submenu.
636 .Bl -tag -width indent
638 The name of the browser package to try and install as necessary.
639 Defaults to latest links package.
641 The name of the browser binary itself (if overriding the
643 variable). Defaults to links.
646 Commit any and all pending changes to disk. This function
647 is essentially shorthand for a number of more granular "commit"
653 Start an "express" installation, asking few questions of
659 Start a "standard" installation, the most user-friendly
660 installation type available.
665 Start an upgrade installation.
669 .It installFixitHoloShell
670 Start up the "emergency holographic shell" over on VTY4
671 if running as init. This will also happen automatically
672 as part of the installation process unless
678 .It installFixitCDROM
679 Go into "fixit" mode, assuming a live file system CDROM
680 currently in the drive.
684 .It installFixitFloppy
685 Go into "fixit" mode, assuming an available fixit floppy
686 disk (user will be prompted for it).
690 .It installFilesystems
691 Do just the file system initialization part of an install.
695 .It installVarDefaults
696 Initialize all variables to their defaults, overriding any
702 Sort of like an #include statement, it allows you to load one
703 configuration file from another.
706 .Bl -tag -width indent
708 The fully qualified pathname of the file to load.
713 CDROM as the installation media.
718 Select a pre-made floppy installation set as the installation media.
723 Select an existing DOS primary partition as the installation media.
724 The first primary partition found is used (e.g. C:).
729 Select a tape device as the installation media.
734 Select an FTP site as the installation media.
737 .Bl -tag -width indent
739 The name of the host being installed (non-optional).
741 The domain name of the host being installed (optional).
743 The default router for this host (non-optional).
745 Which host interface to use
749 for example. Non-optional).
751 If set, bring up the interactive network setup form even
752 if all relevant configuration variables are already set (optional).
754 The IP address for the selected host interface (non-optional).
756 The netmask for the selected host interface (non-optional).
758 The fully qualified URL of the FTP site containing the
760 distribution you're interested in, e.g.\&
761 .Ar ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ .
763 .It mediaSetFTPActive
766 using "active" FTP transfer mode.
771 .It mediaSetFTPPassive
774 using "passive" FTP transfer mode.
788 .Bl -tag -width indent
790 The proxy to use (host:port) (non-optional).
793 Select an existing UFS partition (mounted with the label editor) as
794 the installation media.
797 .Bl -tag -width indent
799 full /path to directory containing the
807 .Bl -tag -width indent
809 The name of the host being installed (non-optional).
811 The domain name of the host being installed (optional).
813 The default router for this host (non-optional).
815 Which host interface to use
819 for example. Non-optional).
821 If set, bring up the interactive network setup form even
822 if all relevant configuration variables are already set (optional).
824 The IP address for the selected host interface (non-optional).
826 The netmask for the selected host interface (non-optional).
828 full hostname:/path specification for directory containing
831 distribution you're interested in.
833 .It mediaSetFTPUserPass
836 .Bl -tag -width indent
838 The username to log in as on the ftp server site.
841 The password to use for this username on the ftp
845 .It mediaSetCPIOVerbosity
848 .Bl -tag -width indent
850 Can be used to set the verbosity of cpio extractions to low, medium or
854 Interactively get the user to specify some type of media.
859 Invoke the interactive options editor.
864 Try to fetch and add a package to the system (requires
865 that a media type be set),
868 .Bl -tag -width indent
870 The name of the package to add, e.g. bash-1.14.7 or ncftp-2.4.2.
873 Invoke the interactive group editor.
878 Invoke the interactive user editor.
883 Stop the script and terminate sysinstall.
888 Execute an arbitrary command with
892 .Bl -tag -width indent
894 The name of the command to execute. When running
895 from a boot floppy, very minimal expectations should
896 be made as to what's available until/unless a relatively
897 full system installation has just been done.
901 This utility may edit the contents of
906 as necessary to reflect changes in the network configuration.
908 If you have a reasonably complete source tree online, take
910 .Pa /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.cfg
911 for a sample installation script.
913 This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past
914 its expiration date and is greatly in need of death.
916 .An Jordan K. Hubbard Aq jkh@FreeBSD.org