Re: Not sure how to do this tricky install...

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18.08.2006, at 03:34, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> I have a spare box I want to use for DFLy as a server.  It will be  
> totally
> headless.  It will plug into a home broadband gateway/router, and  
> should be
> accessible by other machines on the same router.

okay, another way to do it:

use pfi.conf of the installer:   
<http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/nrelease/installer/ 
etc/defaults/pfi.conf?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain>

what you want to do, basically, is:
- use a floppy or usb stick
- put a file "pfi.conf" on the root of it

in this pfi.conf, write something like:

ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
pfi_sshd_permit_root_login="YES"
pfi_set_root_password="sekrit"
pfi_rc_actions="netif dhclient sshd"	# I think sshd is enough

you will always have to put sshd into rc_actions, despite it being  
started in the beginning (it is still?), so that it picks up the  
permit_root_login, I think (and possibly the new interface configured  
by DHCP).

Of course you can also manually assign it an IP, then you don't have to  
go searching for it.

when you're done, just put the dragonfly live cd in the box you want to  
install and plug the usb stick you prepared.  system boots and lets you  
log in.

OR:

boot another box with the dragonfly live cd, select "play netboot  
server" in the installer, boot the box you want to install and plug the  
prepared usb stick (i guess you can even put the prepared pfi.conf in  
the netboot server's /etc, making the install totally media-less)

cheers
  simon

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