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@@ -1,14 +1,24 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/freebsd50.dtd">
-<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
- <info><title>Remote Installation of the &os; Operating System Without a
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
+ xml:lang="en">
+ <info>
+ <title>Remote Installation of the &os; Operating System Without a
Remote Console</title>
-
- <author><personname><firstname>Daniel</firstname><surname>Gerzo</surname></personname><affiliation>
- <address><email>danger@FreeBSD.org</email></address>
- </affiliation></author>
+ <author>
+ <personname>
+ <firstname>Daniel</firstname>
+ <surname>Gerzo</surname>
+ </personname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <address>
+ <email>danger@FreeBSD.org</email>
+ </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
&tm-attrib.freebsd;
@@ -27,25 +37,25 @@
<abstract>
<para>This article documents the remote installation of the &os;
operating system when the console of the remote system is
- unavailable. The main idea behind this article is the result of
- a collaboration with &a.mm.email; with valuable input provided by
- &a.pjd.email;.</para>
+ unavailable. The main idea behind this article is the result
+ of a collaboration with &a.mm.email; with valuable input
+ provided by &a.pjd.email;.</para>
</abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="background">
<title>Background</title>
- <para>There are many server hosting providers in the world, but very
- few of them are officially supporting &os;. They usually provide
- support for a &linux; distribution to be installed on the servers
- they offer.</para>
+ <para>There are many server hosting providers in the world, but
+ very few of them are officially supporting &os;. They usually
+ provide support for a &linux; distribution to be installed on
+ the servers they offer.</para>
<para>In some cases, these companies will install your preferred
- &linux; distribution if you request it. Using this option, we will
- attempt to install &os;. In other cases, they may offer a rescue
- system which would be used in an emergency. It is possible to use
- this for our purposes as well.</para>
+ &linux; distribution if you request it. Using this option, we
+ will attempt to install &os;. In other cases, they may offer a
+ rescue system which would be used in an emergency. It is
+ possible to use this for our purposes as well.</para>
<para>This article covers the basic installation and configuration
steps required to bootstrap a remote installation of &os; with
@@ -56,18 +66,20 @@
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This section will summarize the purpose of this article and
- better explain what is covered herein. The instructions included
- in this article will benefit those using services provided by
- colocation facilities not supporting &os;.</para>
+ better explain what is covered herein. The instructions
+ included in this article will benefit those using services
+ provided by colocation facilities not supporting &os;.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
- <para>As we have mentioned in the <link linkend="background">Background</link> section, many of the
- reputable server hosting companies provide some kind of rescue
- system, which is booted from their <acronym>LAN</acronym> and
- accessible over <application>SSH</application>. They usually
- provide this support in order to help their customers fix
- broken operating systems. As this article will explain, it is
+ <para>As we have mentioned in the <link
+ linkend="background">Background</link> section, many of
+ the reputable server hosting companies provide some kind of
+ rescue system, which is booted from their
+ <acronym>LAN</acronym> and accessible over
+ <application>SSH</application>. They usually provide this
+ support in order to help their customers fix broken
+ operating systems. As this article will explain, it is
possible to install &os; with the help of these rescue
systems.</para>
<!-- XXXTR: Solaris has a restore command, something like
@@ -77,10 +89,11 @@
<step>
<para>The next section of this article will describe how to
configure, and build minimalistic &os; on the local machine.
- That version will eventually be running on the remote machine
- from a ramdisk, which will allow us to install a complete &os;
- operating system from an <acronym>FTP</acronym> mirror using
- the <application>sysinstall</application> utility.</para>
+ That version will eventually be running on the remote
+ machine from a ramdisk, which will allow us to install a
+ complete &os; operating system from an
+ <acronym>FTP</acronym> mirror using the
+ <application>sysinstall</application> utility.</para>
</step>
<step>
@@ -110,8 +123,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Have the &os; installation <acronym>ISO</acronym> image
- or <acronym>CD</acronym> handy</para>
+ <para>Have the &os; installation <acronym>ISO</acronym>
+ image or <acronym>CD</acronym> handy</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
@@ -123,28 +136,29 @@
<para>Before &os; may be installed on the target system, it is
necessary to build the minimal &os; operating system image which
will boot from the hard drive. This way the new system can be
- accessed from the network, and the rest of the installation can be
- done without remote access to the system console.</para>
+ accessed from the network, and the rest of the installation can
+ be done without remote access to the system console.</para>
- <para>The <application>mfsBSD</application> tool-set can be used to
- build a tiny &os; image. As the name of
+ <para>The <application>mfsBSD</application> tool-set can be used
+ to build a tiny &os; image. As the name of
<application>mfsBSD</application> suggests (<quote>mfs</quote>
- means <quote>memory file system</quote>), the resulting image runs
- entirely from a ramdisk. Thanks to this feature, the manipulation
- of hard drives will not be limited, therefore it will be possible
- to install a complete &os; operating system. The home page of
- <application>mfsBSD</application>, at <uri xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/">http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/</uri>, includes
- pointers to the latest release of the toolset.</para>
+ means <quote>memory file system</quote>), the resulting image
+ runs entirely from a ramdisk. Thanks to this feature, the
+ manipulation of hard drives will not be limited, therefore it
+ will be possible to install a complete &os; operating system.
+ The home page of <application>mfsBSD</application>, at <uri
+ xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/">http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/</uri>,
+ includes pointers to the latest release of the toolset.</para>
<para>Please note that the internals of
- <application>mfsBSD</application> and how it all fits together is
- beyond the scope of this article. The interested reader should
- consult the original documentation of
+ <application>mfsBSD</application> and how it all fits together
+ is beyond the scope of this article. The interested reader
+ should consult the original documentation of
<application>mfsBSD</application> for more details.</para>
<para>Download and extract the latest
- <application>mfsBSD</application> release and change your working
- directory to the directory where the
+ <application>mfsBSD</application> release and change your
+ working directory to the directory where the
<application>mfsBSD</application> scripts will reside:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/mfsbsd-latest.tar.gz</userinput>
@@ -152,28 +166,30 @@
&prompt.root; <userinput>cd <replaceable>mfsbsd-1.0-beta1</replaceable>/</userinput></screen>
<sect2 xml:id="mfsbsd-config">
- <title>Configuration of <application>mfsBSD</application></title>
+ <title>Configuration of
+ <application>mfsBSD</application></title>
<para>Before booting <application>mfsBSD</application>, a few
important configuration options have to be set. The most
important that we have to get right is, naturally, the network
- setup. The most suitable method to configure networking options
- depends on whether we know beforehand the type of the network
- interface we will use, and the network interface driver to be
- loaded for our hardware. We will see how
+ setup. The most suitable method to configure networking
+ options depends on whether we know beforehand the type of the
+ network interface we will use, and the network interface
+ driver to be loaded for our hardware. We will see how
<application>mfsBSD</application> can be configured in either
case.</para>
- <para>Another important thing to set is the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> password. This can be done by editing
- <filename>conf/rootpw.conf</filename>. Please keep in
- mind that the file will contain your password in the plain text,
- thus we do not recommend to use real password here.
- Nevertheless, this is just a temporary one-time password which
- can be later changed in a live system.</para>
+ <para>Another important thing to set is the <systemitem
+ class="username">root</systemitem> password. This can be
+ done by editing <filename>conf/rootpw.conf</filename>. Please
+ keep in mind that the file will contain your password in the
+ plain text, thus we do not recommend to use real password
+ here. Nevertheless, this is just a temporary one-time
+ password which can be later changed in a live system.</para>
<sect3>
- <title>The <filename>conf/interfaces.conf</filename> method</title>
+ <title>The <filename>conf/interfaces.conf</filename>
+ method</title>
<para>When the installed network interface card is unknown, we
can use the auto-detection features of
@@ -188,8 +204,9 @@ initconf_mac_ext1="00:00:00:00:00:00"
initconf_ip_ext1="192.168.0.2"
initconf_netmask_ext1="255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
- <para>Do not forget to add the <literal>defaultrouter</literal>
- information to <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
+ <para>Do not forget to add the
+ <literal>defaultrouter</literal> information to
+ <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"</programlisting>
</sect3>
@@ -198,14 +215,15 @@ initconf_netmask_ext1="255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<title>The <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename> Method</title>
<para>When the network interface driver is known, it is more
- convenient to use <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename>
- for networking options. The syntax of this file is the same
- as the one used in the standard &man.rc.conf.5; file of
+ convenient to use <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename> for
+ networking options. The syntax of this file is the same as
+ the one used in the standard &man.rc.conf.5; file of
&os;.</para>
<para>For example, if you know that a &man.re.4; network
- interface is going to be available, you can set the following
- options in <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
+ interface is going to be available, you can set the
+ following options in
+ <filename>conf/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
@@ -213,18 +231,21 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="mfsbsd-build">
- <title>Building an <application>mfsBSD</application> Image</title>
+ <title>Building an <application>mfsBSD</application>
+ Image</title>
- <para>The process of building an <application>mfsBSD</application>
- image is pretty straightforward.</para>
+ <para>The process of building an
+ <application>mfsBSD</application> image is pretty
+ straightforward.</para>
<para>The first step is to mount the &os; installation
<acronym>CD</acronym>, or the installation
- <acronym>ISO</acronym> image to <filename>/cdrom</filename>. For the sake of example,
- in this article we will assume that you have downloaded the &os;
- 7.0-RELEASE <acronym>ISO</acronym>. Mounting this ISO image to
- the <filename>/cdrom</filename> directory is
- easy with the &man.mdconfig.8; utility:</para>
+ <acronym>ISO</acronym> image to <filename>/cdrom</filename>.
+ For the sake of example, in this article we will assume that
+ you have downloaded the &os; 7.0-RELEASE
+ <acronym>ISO</acronym>. Mounting this ISO image to the
+ <filename>/cdrom</filename> directory is easy with the
+ &man.mdconfig.8; utility:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 10 -f <replaceable>7.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso</replaceable></userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>mount_cd9660 /dev/md10 /cdrom</userinput></screen>
@@ -235,9 +256,10 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make BASE=/cdrom/<replaceable>7.0-RELEASE</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<note>
- <para>The above <command>make</command> has to be run
- from the top level of the <application>mfsBSD</application>
- directory tree, for example <filename>~/mfsbsd-1.0-beta1/</filename>.</para>
+ <para>The above <command>make</command> has to be run from the
+ top level of the <application>mfsBSD</application> directory
+ tree, for example
+ <filename>~/mfsbsd-1.0-beta1/</filename>.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
@@ -252,20 +274,21 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>scp disk.img root@192.168.0.2:.</userinput></screen>
- <para>To boot <application>mfsBSD</application> image properly, it
- must be placed on the first (bootable) device of the given
- machine. This may be accomplished using this example providing
- that <filename>sda</filename> is the first bootable disk
- device:</para>
+ <para>To boot <application>mfsBSD</application> image properly,
+ it must be placed on the first (bootable) device of the given
+ machine. This may be accomplished using this example
+ providing that <filename>sda</filename> is the first bootable
+ disk device:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/root/disk.img of=/dev/sda bs=1m</userinput></screen>
<para>If all went well, the image should now be in the
<acronym>MBR</acronym> of the first device and the machine can
- be rebooted. Watch for the machine to boot up properly with the
- &man.ping.8; tool. Once it has came back on-line, it should be
- possible to access it over &man.ssh.1; as user
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> with the configured password.</para>
+ be rebooted. Watch for the machine to boot up properly with
+ the &man.ping.8; tool. Once it has came back on-line, it
+ should be possible to access it over &man.ssh.1; as user
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> with the
+ configured password.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -274,19 +297,19 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<para>The <application>mfsBSD</application> has been successfully
booted and it should be possible to log in through &man.ssh.1;.
- This section will describe how to create and label slices, set up
- <application>gmirror</application> for RAID-1, and how to use
+ This section will describe how to create and label slices, set
+ up <application>gmirror</application> for RAID-1, and how to use
<application>sysinstall</application> to install a minimal
distribution of the &os; operating system.</para>
<sect2>
<title>Preparation of Hard Drives</title>
- <para>The first task is to allocate disk space for &os;, i.e.: to
- create slices and partitions. Obviously, the currently running
- system is fully loaded in system memory and therefore there will
- be no problems with manipulating hard drives. To complete this
- task, it is possible to use either
+ <para>The first task is to allocate disk space for &os;, i.e.:
+ to create slices and partitions. Obviously, the currently
+ running system is fully loaded in system memory and therefore
+ there will be no problems with manipulating hard drives. To
+ complete this task, it is possible to use either
<application>sysinstall</application> or &man.fdisk.8; in
conjunction to &man.bsdlabel.8;.</para>
@@ -295,28 +318,31 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<replaceable>ad0</replaceable> count=2</userinput></screen>
- <para>Next, create slices and label them with your preferred tool.
- While it is considered easier to use
+ <para>Next, create slices and label them with your preferred
+ tool. While it is considered easier to use
<application>sysinstall</application>, a powerful and also
probably less buggy method will be to use standard text-based
- &unix; tools, such as &man.fdisk.8; and &man.bsdlabel.8;, which
- will also be covered in this section. The former option is well
- documented in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/install-steps.html">Installing &os;</link>
- chapter of the &os; Handbook. As it was mentioned in the
- introduction, this article will present how to set up a system
- with RAID-1 and <application>ZFS</application> capabilities.
- Our set up will consist of a small &man.gmirror.8; mirrored
- <filename>/</filename> (root), <filename>/usr</filename> and <filename>/var</filename> dataset, and the rest of
- the disk space will be allocated for a &man.zpool.8; mirrored
+ &unix; tools, such as &man.fdisk.8; and &man.bsdlabel.8;,
+ which will also be covered in this section. The former option
+ is well documented in the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/install-steps.html">Installing
+ &os;</link> chapter of the &os; Handbook. As it was
+ mentioned in the introduction, this article will present how
+ to set up a system with RAID-1 and
+ <application>ZFS</application> capabilities. Our set up will
+ consist of a small &man.gmirror.8; mirrored
+ <filename>/</filename> (root), <filename>/usr</filename> and
+ <filename>/var</filename> dataset, and the rest of the disk
+ space will be allocated for a &man.zpool.8; mirrored
<application>ZFS</application> file system. Please note, that
the <application>ZFS</application> file system will be
configured after the &os; operating system is successfully
installed and booted.</para>
- <para>The following example will describe how to create slices and
- labels, initialize &man.gmirror.8; on each partition and how to
- create a <application>UFS2</application> file system in each
- mirrored partition:</para>
+ <para>The following example will describe how to create slices
+ and labels, initialize &man.gmirror.8; on each partition and
+ how to create a <application>UFS2</application> file system in
+ each mirrored partition:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fdisk -BI /dev/ad0</userinput> <co xml:id="fdisk"/>
&prompt.root; <userinput>fdisk -BI /dev/ad1</userinput>
@@ -347,13 +373,13 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<callout arearefs="bsdlabel-editing">
<para>Now, manually edit the label of the given disk. Refer
- to the &man.bsdlabel.8; manual page in order to find out how
- to create partitions. Create partitions
- <literal>a</literal> for <filename>/</filename> (root) file system,
- <literal>b</literal> for swap, <literal>d</literal> for
- <filename>/var</filename>,
- <literal>e</literal> for <filename>/usr</filename> and finally
- <literal>f</literal> which will later be used for
+ to the &man.bsdlabel.8; manual page in order to find out
+ how to create partitions. Create partitions
+ <literal>a</literal> for <filename>/</filename> (root)
+ file system, <literal>b</literal> for swap,
+ <literal>d</literal> for <filename>/var</filename>,
+ <literal>e</literal> for <filename>/usr</filename> and
+ finally <literal>f</literal> which will later be used for
<application>ZFS</application>.</para>
</callout>
@@ -370,26 +396,26 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<callout arearefs="gmirror2">
<para>Note that <option>-F</option> is used for the swap
partition. This instructs &man.gmirror.8; to assume that
- the device is in the consistent state after the power/system
- failure.</para>
+ the device is in the consistent state after the
+ power/system failure.</para>
</callout>
<callout arearefs="newfs">
- <para>Create a <application>UFS2</application> file system on
- each mirrored partition.</para>
- </callout>
+ <para>Create a <application>UFS2</application> file system
+ on each mirrored partition.</para>
+ </callout>
</calloutlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>System Installation</title>
- <para>This is the most important part. This section will describe
- how to actually install the minimal distribution of &os; on the
- hard drives that we have prepared in the previous section. To
- accomplish this goal, all file systems need to be mounted so
- <application>sysinstall</application> may write the contents of
- &os; to the hard drives:</para>
+ <para>This is the most important part. This section will
+ describe how to actually install the minimal distribution of
+ &os; on the hard drives that we have prepared in the previous
+ section. To accomplish this goal, all file systems need to be
+ mounted so <application>sysinstall</application> may write the
+ contents of &os; to the hard drives:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount /dev/mirror/root /mnt</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr</userinput>
@@ -401,7 +427,8 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
menu. Select <guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem> and press
<keycap>Enter</keycap>. With the help of arrow keys, move the
cursor on the <literal>Install Root</literal> item, press
- <keycap>Space</keycap> and change it to <filename>/mnt</filename>. Press
+ <keycap>Space</keycap> and change it to
+ <filename>/mnt</filename>. Press
<keycap>Enter</keycap> to submit your changes and exit the
<guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem> menu by pressing
<keycap>q</keycap>.</para>
@@ -429,23 +456,24 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
<para>In the <guimenuitem>Media</guimenuitem> menu, select
<option>FTP</option>. Select the nearest mirror and let
- <application>sysinstall</application> assume that the network is
- already configured. You will be returned back to the
+ <application>sysinstall</application> assume that the network
+ is already configured. You will be returned back to the
<guimenuitem>Custom</guimenuitem> menu.</para>
<para>Finally, perform the system installation by selecting the
- last option, <guimenuitem>Commit</guimenuitem>.
- Exit <application>sysinstall</application> when it finishes the
+ last option, <guimenuitem>Commit</guimenuitem>. Exit
+ <application>sysinstall</application> when it finishes the
installation.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Post Installation Steps</title>
- <para>The &os; operating system should be installed now; however,
- the process is not finished yet. It is necessary to perform
- some post installation steps in order to allow &os; to boot in
- the future and to be able to log in to the system.</para>
+ <para>The &os; operating system should be installed now;
+ however, the process is not finished yet. It is necessary to
+ perform some post installation steps in order to allow &os; to
+ boot in the future and to be able to log in to the
+ system.</para>
<para>You must now &man.chroot.8; into the freshly installed
system in order to finish the installation. Use the following
@@ -483,8 +511,8 @@ ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Create <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>
- with the following contents:</para>
+ <para>Create <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> with the
+ following contents:</para>
<programlisting>geom_mirror_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"</programlisting>
@@ -501,8 +529,8 @@ zfs_load="YES"</programlisting>
<listitem>
<para>Add additional users to the system using the
&man.adduser.8; tool. Do not forget to add a user to the
- <systemitem class="groupname">wheel</systemitem> group so you may obtain root
- access after the reboot.</para>
+ <systemitem class="groupname">wheel</systemitem> group so
+ you may obtain root access after the reboot.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -510,7 +538,7 @@ zfs_load="YES"</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The system should now be ready for the next boot. Use the
+ <para>The system should now be ready for the next boot. Use the
&man.reboot.8; command to reboot your system.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -518,14 +546,14 @@ zfs_load="YES"</programlisting>
<sect1 xml:id="zfs">
<title>ZFS</title>
- <para>If your system survived the reboot, it should now be possible
- to log in. Welcome to the fresh &os; installation, performed
- remotely without the use of a remote console!</para>
+ <para>If your system survived the reboot, it should now be
+ possible to log in. Welcome to the fresh &os; installation,
+ performed remotely without the use of a remote console!</para>
<para>The only remaining step is to configure &man.zpool.8; and
- create some &man.zfs.8; file systems. Creating and administering
- <application>ZFS</application> is very straightforward. First,
- create a mirrored pool:</para>
+ create some &man.zfs.8; file systems. Creating and
+ administering <application>ZFS</application> is very
+ straightforward. First, create a mirrored pool:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>zpool create tank mirror /dev/ad[01]s1f</userinput></screen>
@@ -539,7 +567,8 @@ zfs_load="YES"</programlisting>
&prompt.root; <userinput>zfs set mountpoint=/usr/src tank/src</userinput></screen>
<para>That is all. If you are interested in more details about
- <application>ZFS</application> on &os;, please refer to the <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS">ZFS</link> section of the &os;
- Wiki.</para>
+ <application>ZFS</application> on &os;, please refer to the
+ <link xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS">ZFS</link>
+ section of the &os; Wiki.</para>
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