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 the partitions with ext2 or ext3 (see next parameter)
here. This partitions would be created and formated. If you use
"auto", the "/" and the "/boot" partition would be created.
Required.
EXT3FS=<yes|no>
Enter "yes" If you want ext3 partitions. If you use "auto", the
systems use ext3 partition, if the kernel supports it. Required.
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.
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.
ELILO=<entries for the systems elilo.conf |auto>
Same as LILO but for the elilo bootloader on ia64 systems. Use
"auto" for automatically generated file. Only required, if you
want ELILO.
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).