bionic (5) bootcd2disk.conf.5.gz

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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).