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NAME
bootcd2disk.conf - configuration file for bootcd2disk
DESCRIPTION
The file bootcd2disk.conf contains configuration option for the bootcd2disk(1) program of
the same named package. The file must be located in the configuration directory which is
usually /etc/bootcd.
Blank lines are ignored and lines with leading # are comments. Values have to be set with
name=value
You can use a wildcard named DISK<number> to specify partitions instead of e.g.
/dev/hda<number>. DISK was replaced by $DISK, which can be set by the same named
parameter.
FORMAT
ERRLOG=<path>
Write all errors to this file. Required.
DISK=<device|auto>
Specify the disk you want to use for the installation, e.g. /dev/hda for the first
IDE drive in the system. If you use "auto", bootcd2disk automatically try to use
the first hard disk in the system. Required.
SFDISK=<partitions in sfdisk syntax|auto>
Configuration options for sfdisk, which creates the partitions for us. If you use
"auto", we create default partitions "/", "/boot" and a swap partition. Required.
VFAT=<partitions separated by spaces>
Configure vfat partitions there, if you need some. Optional.
EXT2FS=<partitions separated by spaces|auto>
Specify partitions for ext2 FS. This partitions will be created with an ext2
filesystem. If auto is used, auto has to be used for EXT2FS, EXT3FS and EXT4FS.
Auto means, that first ext4 will be tried, if this is not available ext3 is tried,
and if this is not available ext2 is tried and used for "/" and "/boot" partition.
EXT3FS=<partitons separated by spaces|auto>
See EXT2FS.
EXT4FS=<partitons separated by spaces|auto>
See EXT2FS.
SWAP=<partitions separated by spaces|auto>
The partitions configured there are created as swap. If you use "auto", one swap
partition is been created. Required.
MOUNT=<mount <partition> <mountpoint>; ... |auto>
Insert here the mount command line to mount your partitions or use "auto".
Required. Example:
MOUNT="mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/bootcd.disc;
mkdir /mnt/bootcd.disc/boot;
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/bootcd.disc/boot"
BIND=<mount --bind <mounted dir> <mountpoint>; ... |auto>
Insert here the mount command line to mount your partitions in a chroot environment
or use "auto". Required.
UMOUNT=<umount <mountpoint>; ... |auto>
Insert here the mount command line to umount your partitions or use "auto".
Required.
FSTAB=<entries for the systems fstab |auto>
Configure here all partitions you need to mount after target systems startup in the
fstab syntax or use "auto". Required.
LILO=<entries for the systems lilo.conf |auto>
This variable includes the complete configuration file for the lilo bootloader on
the target system. Use "auto" for automatically generated file. Only required, if
you want LILO. Make sure GRUB and GRUB2 are defined as empty if you want to use
LILO.
GRUB=<entries for the systems grub/menu.lst |auto>
This variable includes the complete configuration file for the grub bootloader on
the target system. Use "auto" for automatically generated file. Only required, if
you want GRUB.
GRUB2=<entries for the systems grub/grub.cfg |auto>
This variable includes the complete configuration file for the grub2 bootloader on
the target system. Use "auto" for automatically generated file. Only required, if
you want GRUB 2.
GRUBBOOTDIR=<number of partition which contains grub-dir | 0>
This variable defines the partition where the grub bootloader information is
stored. You want to use this if you have defined your own partition layout and the
grub information is not on the first partition. Remember that grub starts counting
partitions at 0. So if you decided that /boot is on partition /dev/sda2 you need to
set the parameter to 1.
GRUBBOOTDISK=<grub disk>
This should be "hd0". Only if your BIOS sees another disk as the first disk you may
have to change it.
GRUBDEVICEMAP=<auto|no|<value>>
GRUBDEVICEMAP="auto" means, bootcd2disk deletes the original device.map, so that it
will be auto-created by grub again. This should work also when installing on
different hardware with different disks. GRUBDEVICEMAP="no" means bootcd2disk does
not change device.map. This should work if a bootcd is installed on the original
hardware Everything else will be used as new value for device.map.
SSHOSTKEY=<yes|no>
If you are using ssh it is helpful to have a unique ssh hostkey for each system
installed with bootcd2disk. This will be generated if this option is set to "yes".
Required.
UDEV_FIXNET=<yes|no>
If you are using the udev filesystem and want to install the image on other
machines, you need to set this to "yes" because the network interfaces are
hardwired in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules (etch) or in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (lenny) and we must remove them.
Required.
IMAGEURL=<url>
If bootcd2disk is slow on your system (because of a slow CD/DVD drive or the HP ILO
virtual CD interface), you can use a image server to get the bootcdimage from.
bootcd2disk use the swap partition of your upcoming system as temporary space and
copy the image from the configured image server to this partition and use it as
image. May be overwritten from command line "-url". Need the following parameter
"IMAGEURL". Required. The <url> is used with wget, all url syntax from wget are
possible. Please use a ip because of failed DNS and you need also the configured ip
interface. May be overwritten from command line (-url). Required.
example:
IMAGEPURL="https://192.168.1.1:81/cdimage.iso"
function before_copy() {
return
}
If you want some action before copying the system to the target disk, like remount
or other thinks, you can write this action to the body of this function. Optional.
function after_copy() {
return
}
If you want some action after copying the system to the target disk, like remount
or other thinks, you can write this action to the body of this function. Optional.
SEE ALSO
bootcd2disk(1), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcdwrite(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Carsten Dinkelmann <carsten.dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).