Re: Newbie custom config questions

Lee J. Imber wrote:
> 
> On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Dario Freni wrote:
> 
>> Lee J. Imber wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> First off thanks for the cool project. After playing with this for a
>>> few days, lots a useful ideas are jumping out at me!
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is my situation.
>>>
>>> I have box in a colo that is on the West coast that has recently died
>>> (HD). I am in NY.
>>> I need to get that box up asap with minimal configuration.
>>>
>>> These are my requirements.
>>>
>>> 1. /etc/passwd pre-configured with my accounts.
>>> 2. /etc/resolv.conf
>>> 3. ifconfig_fxp0
>>> 4. defaultrouter
>>> 5. sshd to start at boot time.
>>> 6. Set hostname
>>> 7. NTPD
>>>
>>> I first started with 1.1 and was able to build working iso's fine   (way
>>> cool)
>>> I was able to get #3,4,5,6,7 of my list to end up on my working iso.
>>> I could not get a /etc/resolv.conf file to be created in the image  and
>>> I also tried to copy a working /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd to
>>> my image and still no go.
>>>
>>> I then tried version 2. I am currently in the "building  everything" 
>>> stage
>>> so I have not had any experience with it yet. I do see the adduser
>>> scripts in the
>>> extra config, but not sure how these work until I start playing.
>>
>>
>> You can find some documentation on http://wiki.freesbie.org/freesbie2.
>> Follow the links to have the configuration parameters explained. At  the
>> moment you have to enable at least etcmfs to have a working image.
>>
>> The customroot plugin allows you to add your own files to the image
>> during the build phase. All the content of freesbie2/extra/customroot/
>> dir will be copied to the / dir of livefs as is. For example, if you
>> create freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/resolv.conf it will be copied to
>> /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> 
> OK cool, how is this done in the 1.1 tree? I know its not being 
> developed anymore
> but I currently have that version installed and building fine. I  tried
> 2 and I keep getting
> build errors (no time to debug)  A hint on how 1.1 handles this very 
> function
> will be very helpful.

The latest version in CVS (freesbie module, not freesbie2) have a
files/custom/ directory. It has the same meaning of extra/customroot/ one.

>> To set root password you can set it the first time the way Marco said:
>>
>> chroot /usr/local/freesbie-fs /usr/bin/passwd root
>>
>> If you don't want to set it everytime you rebuild your iso, you can  put
>> /usr/local/freesbie-fs/etc/passwd and
>> /usr/local/freesbie-fs/etc/master.passwd to
>> freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/. The login db is recreated  automatically
>> by customroot plugin.
>>
> 
> Sweet. Seems to have worked fine.
> 
>>
>>> One other thing. Unfortunately I do not remember what the  interface  is
>>> on my box
>>> on the west coast. I *think* its fxp0 but not 100%. I saw in the
>>> rc.conf on the 1.1 install
>>> a neat script to sorta do a dhcp on all the interfaces it finds.  Is  it
>>> possible for me
>>> to take advantage of the script and set the static IP for every
>>> interface it finds.
>>
>>
>> Adding ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf SHOULD work, as this is
>> what devd looks for if it doesn't find a specifical variable set  for the
>> interface. Make also sure devd is starting by adding devd_enable="YES"
>>
>> Remember you can also add those to freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/
>> rc.conf
>>
> 
> OK, this is true if it's a static IP that will be assigned? Can I  just
> change
> the "DHCP" to "inet foo netmask bar" ?

According to /etc/network.subr source this should work also with static
ips. The _ifconfig_getargs function uses $ifconfig_DEFAULT if
$ifconfig_xx0 is not set.

Are you using FreeBSD 6?

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