freebsd/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.8

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.Dd August 9, 1997
.Dt SYSINSTALL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sysinstall
.Nd system installation and configuration tool
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Ar var=value
.Op Ar function
.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a utility for installing and configuring FreeBSD systems.
It is the first utility invoked by the FreeBSD installation boot
floppy and is also copied into
.Pa /stand/sysinstall
on newly installed FreeBSD systems for use in later configuring the system.
.Pp
The
.Nm
program is generally invoked without arguments for the default
behavior, where the main installation/configuration menu is presented.

On those occasions where it is deemed necessary to invoke a subsystem
of sysinstall directly, however, it is also possible to do so by
naming the appropriate function entry points on the command line.
Since this action is essentially identical to running an installation
script, each command-line argument corresponding to a line of script,
the reader is encouraged to read the section on scripting for more
information on this feature.
.Pp
.Sh NOTES
.Nm
is essentially nothing more than a monolithic C program with
the ability to write MBRs and disk labels (through the services
of the
.Xr libdisk 3
library) and install distributions or packages onto new and
existing FreeBSD systems.  It also contains some extra intelligence
for running as a replacement for
.Xr init 8
when it's invoked by the FreeBSD installation boot procedure.  It
assumes very little in the way of additional utility support and
performs most file system operations by calling the relevant syscalls
(such as
.Xr mount 2 )
directly.
.Pp
.Nm
currently uses the
.Xr libdialog 3
library to do user interaction with simple ANSI line graphics, color
support for which is enabled by either running on a syscons VTY or some
other color-capable terminal emulator (newer versions of xterm will support
color when using the ``xterm-color'' termcap entry).
.Pp
This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will
be replaced in FreeBSD 3.0 by the
.Xr setup 1
utility.
.Sh RUNNING SCRIPTS
.Nm
may be either driven interactively through its various internal menus
or run in batch mode, driven by an external script.  Such a script may
be loaded and executed in one of 3 ways:

.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It Sy "LOAD_CONFIG_FILE"
If
.Nm
is compiled with LOAD_CONFIG_FILE set in the environment
(or in the Makefile) to some value, then that value will
be used as the filename to automatically look for and load
when
.Nm
starts up and with no user interaction required.
This option is aimed primarily at large sites who wish to create a
single prototype install for multiple machines with largely identical
configurations and/or installation options.

.It Sy "MAIN MENU"
If
.Nm
is run interactively, that is to say in the default manner, it will
bring up a main menu which contains a "load config file" option.
Selecting this option will prompt for the name of a script file which
it then will attempt to load from a DOS or UFS formatted floppy.

.It Sy "COMMAND LINE"
Each command line argument is treated as a script directive
when
.Nm
is run in multi-user mode.  Execution ends either by explicit request
(e.g. calling the
.Ar shutdown
directive), upon reaching the end of the argument list or on error.
.Pp
For example:
.nf

/stand/sysinstall ftp=ftp:/ziggy/pub/ mediaSetFTP configPackages

.fi
Would initialize
.Nm
for FTP installation media (using the server `ziggy') and then
bring up the package installation editor, exiting when finished.
.El
.Pp
.Sh SCRIPT SYNTAX
A script is a list of one or more directives, each directive taking
the form of:

.Ar var=value
.Pp
.Ar function
.Pp
or
.Ar #somecomment

Where
.Ar var=value
is the assignment of some internal
.Nm
variable, e.g. "ftpPass=FuNkYChiKn", and
.Ar function
is the name of an internal
.Nm
function, e.g. "mediaSetFTP", and
.Ar #comment
is a single-line comment for documentation purposes (ignored by
sysinstall).  Each directive must be by itself on a single line,
functions taking their arguments by examining known variable names.
This requires that you be sure to assign the relevant variables before
calling a function which requires them.  When and where a function
depends on the settings of one or more variables will be noted in the
following table:

.Pp
\fBFunction Glossary:\fR
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It configAnonFTP
Invoke the Anonymous FTP configuration menu.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It configRouter
Select which routing daemon you wish to use, potentially
loading any required 3rd-party routing daemons as necessary.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It router
can be set to the name of the desired routing daemon,
e.g. ``routed'' or ``gated'', otherwise it is prompted for.
.El
.It configNFSServer
Configure host as an NFS server.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It configNTP
Configure host as a user of the Network Time Protocol.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It ntpdate_flags
The flags to
.Xr ntpdate 8 ,
that is to say the name of the server to sync from.
.El
.It configPCNFSD
Configure host to support PC NFS.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It pcnfsd_pkg
The name of the PCNFSD package to load if necessary (defaults to hard coded
version).
.El
.It configPackages
Bring up the interactive package management menu.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It configRegister
Register the user with the FreeBSD counter.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It configUsers
Add users and/or groups to the system.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It configXEnvironment
Configure the X display subsystem.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It diskPartitionEditor
Invokes the disk partition (MBR) editor.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width findx
.It geometry
The disk geometry, as a cyls/heads/sectors formatted string.  Default: no
change to geometry.
.It partition
Set to disk partitioning type or size, its value being
.Ar free
in order to use only remaining free space for FreeBSD,
.Ar all
to use the entire disk for FreeBSD but maintain a proper partition
table,
.Ar existing
to use an existing FreeBSD partition (first found),
.Ar exclusive
to use the disk in ``dangerously dedicated'' mode or, finally,
.Ar somenumber
to allocate
.Ar somenumber
blocks of available free space to a new FreeBSD partition.
Default:  Interactive mode.
.It bootManager
is set to one of
.Ar boot
to signify the installation of a boot manager,
.Ar standard
to signify installation of a "standard" non-boot MGR DOS
MBR or
.Ar none
to indicate that no change to the boot manager is desired.
Default: none.
.El
.Pp
Note: Nothing is actually written to disk by this function, a explicit call to
.Ar diskPartitionWrite
being required for that to happen.
.It diskPartitionWrite
Causes any pending MBR changes (typically from the
.Ar diskPartitionEditor
function) to be written out.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It diskLabelEditor
Invokes the disk label editor.  This is a bit trickier from a script
since you need to essentially label everything inside each FreeBSD
(type 0xA5) partition created by the
.Ar diskPartitionEditor
function, and that requires knowing a few rules about how things are
laid out.  When creating a script to automatically allocate disk space
and partition it up, it is suggested that you first perform the
installation interactively at least once and take careful notes as to
what the slice names will be, then and only then hardwiring them into
the script.
.Pp
For example, let's say you have a SCSI disk on which you've created a new
FreeBSD partition in slice 2 (your DOS partition residing in slice 1).
The slice name would be
.Ar sd0s2
for the whole FreeBSD partition (
.Ar sd0s1
being your DOS primary
partition).  Now let's further assume that you have 500MB in this
partition and you want to sub-partition that space into root, swap,
var and usr file systems for FreeBSD.  Your invocation of the
.Ar diskLabelEditor
function might involve setting the following variables:
.Bl -tag -width findx
.It Li "sd0s2-1=ufs 40960 /"
A 20MB root file system (all sizes are in 512 byte blocks).
.It Li "sd0s2-2=swap 131072 /"
A 64MB swap partition.
.It Li "sd0s2-3=ufs 204800 /var"
A 100MB /var file system.
.It Li "sd0s2-4=ufs 0 /usr"
With the balance of free space (around 316MB) going to the /usr
file system.
.El

One can also use the
.Ar diskLabelEditor
for mounting or erasing existing partitions as well as creating new
ones.  Using the previous example again, let's say that we also wanted
to mount our DOS partition and make sure that an
.Pa /etc/fstab
entry is created for it in the new installation.  Before calling the
.Ar diskLabelEditor
function, we simply add an additional line:
.nf
	sd0s1=/dos_c N

.fi
before the call.  This tells the label editor that you want to mount
the first slice on
.Pa /dos_c
and not to attempt to newfs it (not that
.Nm
would attempt this for a DOS partition in any case, but it could just
as easily be an existing UFS partition being named here and the 2nd
field is non-optional).
.Pp
Note:  No file system data is actually written to disk until an
explicit call to
.Ar diskLabelCommit
is made.
.It diskLabelCommit
Writes out all pending disklabel information and creates and/or mounts any
file systems which have requests pending from the
.Ar diskLabelEditor
function.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distReset
Resets all selected distributions to the empty set (no distributions selected).
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetCustom
Allows the selection of a custom distribution set (e.g. not just on of the
existing "canned" sets) with no user interaction.
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It dists
List of distributions to load.  Possible distribution values are:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Li bin
The base binary distribution.
.It Li doc
Miscellaneous documentation
.It Li games
Games
.It Li manpages
Manual pages (unformatted)
.It Li catpages
Pre-formatted manual pages
.It Li proflibs
Profiled libraries for developers.
.It Li dict
Dictionary information (for tools like spell).
.It Li info
GNU info files and other extra docs.
.It Li des
DES encryption binaries and libraries.
.It Li compat1x
Compatibility with FreeBSD 1.x
.It Li compat20
Compatibility with FreeBSD 2.0
.It Li compat21
Compatibility with FreeBSD 2.1
.It Li ports
The ports collection.
.It Li krb
Kerberos binaries.
.It Li ssecure
/usr/src/secure
.It Li sebones
/usr/src/eBones
.It Li sbase
/usr/src/[top level files]
.It Li scontrib
/usr/src/contrib
.It Li sgnu
/usr/src/gnu
.It Li setc
/usr/src/etc
.It Li sgames
/usr/src/games
.It Li sinclude
/usr/src/include
.It Li slib
/usr/src/lib
.It Li slibexec
/usr/src/libexec
.It Li slkm
/usr/src/lkm
.It Li srelease
/usr/src/release
.It Li sbin
/usr/src/bin
.It Li ssbin
/usr/src/sbin
.It Li sshare
/usr/src/share
.It Li ssys
/usr/src/sys
.It Li subin
/usr/src/usr.bin
.It Li susbin
/usr/src/usr.sbin
.It Li ssmailcf
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf
.It Li XF86-xc
XFree86 official sources.
.It Li XF86-co
XFree86 contributed sources.
.It Li X33bin
XFree86 3.3 binaries.
.It Li X33cfg
XFree86 3.3 configuration files.
.It Li X33doc
XFree86 3.3 documentation.
.It Li X33html
XFree86 3.3 HTML documentation.
.It Li X33lib
XFree86 3.3 libraries.
.It Li X33lk98
XFree86 3.3 server link-kit for PC98 machines.
.It Li X33lkit
XFree86 3.3 server link-kit for standard machines.
.It Li X33man
XFree86 3.3 manual pages.
.It Li X33prog
XFree86 3.3 programmer's distribution.
.It Li X33ps
XFree86 3.3 postscript documentation.
.It Li X33set
XFree86 3.3 graphical setup tool.
.It Li X338514
XFree86 3.3 8514 server.
.It Li X339480
XFree86 3.3 PC98 8-bit (256 color) PEGC-480 server.
.It Li X339EGC
XFree86 3.3 PC98 4-bit (16 color) EGC server.
.It Li X339GA9
XFree86 3.3 PC98 GA-968V4/PCI (S3 968) server.
.It Li X339GAN
XFree86 3.3 PC98 GANB-WAP (cirrus) server.
.It Li X339LPW
XFree86 3.3 PC98 PowerWindowLB (S3) server.
.It Li X339NKV
XFree86 3.3 PC98 NKV-NEC (cirrus) server.
.It Li X339NS3
XFree86 3.3 PC98 NEC (S3) server.
.It Li X339SPW
XFree86 3.3 PC98 SKB-PowerWindow (S3) server.
.It Li X339TGU
XFree86 3.3 PC98 Cyber9320 and TGUI9680 server.
.It Li X339WEP
XFree86 3.3 PC98 WAB-EP (cirrus) server.
.It Li X339WS
XFree86 3.3 PC98 WABS (cirrus) server.
.It Li X339WSN
XFree86 3.3 PC98 WSN-A2F (cirrus) server.
.It Li X33AGX
XFree86 3.3 8 bit AGX server.
.It Li X33I128
XFree86 3.3 #9 Imagine I128 server.
.It Li X33Ma8
XFree86 3.3 ATI Mach8 server.
.It Li X33Ma32
XFree86 3.3 ATI Mach32 server.
.It Li X33Ma64
XFree86 3.3 ATI Mach64 server.
.It Li X33Mono
XFree86 3.3 monochrome server.
.It Li X33P9K
XFree86 3.3 P9000 server.
.It Li X33S3
XFree86 3.3 S3 server.
.It Li X33S3V
XFree86 3.3 S3 Virge server.
.It Li X33SVGA
XFree86 3.3 SVGA server.
.It Li X33VG16
XFree86 3.3 VGA16 server.
.It Li X33W32
XFree86 3.3 ET4000/W32, /W32i and /W32p server.
.It Li X33nest
XFree86 3.3 nested X server.
.It Li X33vfb
XFree86 3.3 virtual frame-buffer X server.
.It Li X33fnts
XFree86 3.3 base font set.
.It Li X33f100
XFree86 3.3 100DPI font set.
.It Li X33fcyr
XFree86 3.3 Cyrillic font set.
.It Li X33fscl
XFree86 3.3 scalable font set.
.It Li X33fnon
XFree86 3.3 non-english font set.
.It Li X33fsrv
XFree86 3.3 font server.
.El
.It distSetDeveloper
Selects the standard Developer's distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetXDeveloper
Selects the standard X Developer's distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetKernDeveloper
Selects the standard kernel Developer's distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetUser
Selects the standard user distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetXUser
Selects the standard X user's distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetMinimum
Selects the very minimum distribution set.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetEverything
Selects the full whack - all available distributions.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetDES
Interactively select DES subcomponents.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetSrc
Interactively select source subcomponents.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distSetXF86
Interactively select XFree86 3.3 subcomponents.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It distExtractAll
Install all currently selected distributions (requires that
media device also be selected).
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It docBrowser
Install (if necessary) an HTML documentation browser and go to the
HTML documentation submenu.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It browserPackage
The name of the browser package to try and install as necessary.
Defaults to latest lynx package.
.It browserBinary
The name of the browser binary itself (if overriding the
.Ar browserPackage
variable).  Defaults to lynx.
.El
.It installCommit
.Pp
Commit any and all pending changes to disk.  This function
is essentially shorthand for a number of more granular "commit"
functions.
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installExpress
Start an "express" installation, asking few questions of
the user.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installNovice
Start a "novice" installation, the most user-friendly
installation type available.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installUpgrade
Start an upgrade installation.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installFixitHoloShell
Start up the "emergency holographic shell" over on VTY4
if running as init.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installFixitCDROM
Go into "fixit" mode, assuming a live file system CDROM
currently in the drive.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installFixitFloppy
Go into "fixit" mode, assuming an available fixit floppy
disk (user will be prompted for it).
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installFilesystems
Do just the file system initialization part of an install.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It installVarDefaults
Initialize all variables to their defaults, overriding any
previous settings.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It mediaSetCDROM
Select a FreeBSD CDROM as the installation media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It mediaSetFloppy
Select a pre-made floppy installation set as the installation media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It mediaSetDOS
Select an existing DOS primary partition as the installation media.
The first primary partition found is used (e.g. C:).
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It mediaSetTape
Select a tape device as the installation media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It mediaSetFTP
Select an FTP site as the installation media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It hostname
The name of the host being installed (optional).
.It domainname
The domain name of the host being installed (optional).
.It defaultrouter
The default router for this host (non-optional).
.It netDev
Which host interface to use (
.Ar ed0
or
.Ar ep0 ,
for example.  Non-optional).
.It ipaddr
The IP address for the selected host interface (non-optional).
.It netmask
The netmask for the selected host interface (non-optional).
.It ftp
The fully qualified URL of the FTP site containing the FreeBSD
distribution you're interested in, e.g.
.Ar ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ .
.El
.It mediaSetFTPActive
Alias for
.Ar mediaSetFTP
using "active" FTP transfer mode.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR Same as for
.Ar mediaSetFTP .
.It mediaSetFTPPassive
Alias for
.Ar mediaSetFTP
using "passive" FTP transfer mode.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR Same as for
.Ar mediaSetFTP .
.It mediaSetUFS
Select an existing UFS partition (mounted with the label editor) as
the installation media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It ufs
full /path to directory containing the FreeBSD distribution you're
interested in.
.El
.It mediaSetNFS
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It hostname
The name of the host being installed (optional).
.It domainname
The domain name of the host being installed (optional).
.It defaultrouter
The default router for this host (non-optional).
.It netDev
Which host interface to use (
.Ar ed0
or
.Ar ep0 ,
for example.  Non-optional).
.It ipaddr
The IP address for the selected host interface (non-optional).
.It netmask
The netmask for the selected host interface (non-optional).
.It nfs
full hostname:/path specification for directory containing
the FreeBSD distribution you're interested in.
.El
.It mediaSetFTPUserPass
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It ftpUser
The username to log in as on the ftp server site.
Default: ftp
.It ftpPass
The password to use for this username on the ftp
server site.
Default: user@host
.El
.It mediaSetCPIOVerbosity
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It cpioVerbose
Can be used to set the verbosity of cpio extractions to low, medium or
high.
.El
.It mediaGetType
Interactively get the user to specify some type of media.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It optionsEditor
Invoke the interactive options editor.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It register
Bring up the FreeBSD registration form.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It packageAdd
Try to fetch and add a package to the system (requires
that a media type be set),
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It package
The name of the package to add, e.g. bash-1.14.7 or ncftp-2.4.2.
.El
.It addGroup
Invoke the interactive group editor.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It addUser
Invoke the interactive user editor.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It shutdown
Stop the script and terminate sysinstall.
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR None
.It system
Execute an arbitrary command with
.Xr system 3
.Pp
\fBVariables:\fR
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It command
The name of the command to execute.  When running
from a boot floppy, very minimal expectations should
be made as to what's available until/unless a relatively
full system installation has just been done.
.El
.El
.Sh FILES
This utility may edit the contents of
.Pa /etc/rc.conf ,
.Pa /etc/hosts ,
and
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
as necessary to reflect changes in the network configuration.
.Sh SEE ALSO
If you have a reasonably complete source tree online, take
a look at
.Pa /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg
for a sample installation script.
.Sh BUGS
This utility is a prototype which lasted approximately 2 years past
its expiration date and is greatly in need of death.
.Sh AUTHOR
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
.Sh HISTORY
This version of
.Nm
first appeared in
.Fx 2.0 .