pc-sysinstall —
System installer backend
pc-sysinstall |
[-c file]
[command] |
The pc-sysinstall utility is a hybrid
backend for installing FreeBSD. When run in install mode it takes a
configuration file and performs an installation according to the parameters
specified in the configuration file. When called with one of the system
query commands it provides information about the system to aid a front end
in building an appropriate configuration file.
The following options are available:
-c
file- Perform an installation as directed by file.
The command can be any one of the
following:
- help
- Display a list of all commands.
- help command
- Display the help data for the specified command.
- disk-list
- Provide a listing of the storage devices detected on this system.
- disk-part disk
- Queries the specified storage device and returns information about its
partitions.
- disk-info disk
- Returns information about a storage device's size, cylinders, heads, and
sectors.
- detect-laptop
- Tests to see if this system is a laptop or desktop.
- detect-emulation
- Tests to see if this system is running in an emulator
- detect-nics
- Returns a listing of the detected network cards on this system.
- list-components
- Returns a listing of the available components which can be installed.
- list-rsync-backups user host
port
- Returns a listing of available rsync-backups on the target server in the
life-preserver/ directory.
- list-tzones
- Returns a listing of available timezones.
- query-langs
- Returns a list of languages that the installer supports.
- sys-mem
- Returns the size of installed system RAM in MegaBytes.
- test-netup
- test if an internet connection is available.
- update-part-list
- Returns a list of PC-BSD and FreeBSD installs on this system for
updates.
- xkeyboard-layouts
- Returns a list of keyboard layouts that xorg supports.
- xkeyboard-models
- Returns a list of keyboard models that xorg supports.
- xkeyboard-variants
- Returns a list of keyboard variants that xorg supports.
- create-part disk size
- Create a new MBR primary slice on the target disk using size MB.
- delete-part partition
- Delete the disk partition specified. If this is the last partition, the
disk partition layout will also be scrubbed, leaving a clean disk ready
for MBR or GPT file system layouts.
- start-autoinstall file
- Start an automated installation with the specified file. Normally only
used by automated install scripts.
- setup-ssh-keys user host
port
- Setup SSH without a password for the target host, user, and port. Used to
prompt the user to log into a server before doing a rsync + ssh
restore.
This version of pc-sysinstall first
appeared in FreeBSD 9.0.
This utility was written to install PC-BSD and has seen limited
use as an installer for FreeBSD. It's likely that usage to install FreeBSD
will expose edge cases that PC-BSD doesn't, as well as generate feature
requests based on unforeseen needs.