systeminstaller.conf(5)
NAME
systeminstaller.conf - SystemInstaller configuration file
DESCRIPTION
- This file, by default located in /etc/systeminstaller/sys
- teminstaller.conf is used by the SystemInstaller programis to de
- termine what configuration information should be applied to your
- system.
- The file looks something like the following:
# This is a comment
binpath= /usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin
# The distinfo directory tree for SystemInstaller
distinfo= /usr/lib/systeminstaller/Sys- temInstaller/distinfo
# The directory for package files
pkgpath= /tftpboot/rpms - # SystemInstaller commands
simachine= mksimachine
sidisk= mksidisk
siimage= mksiimage
OPTIONS
The following options are available within the config file
- binpath
- The directories where the SIS executable files reside.
- This is appended to the PATH environment variable and should be a
- colon delimited list of path names.
- distinfo
- The directory where the SystemInstaller distribution
- tree resides.
- pkgpath
- The directory where the distribution installable pack
- ages reside.
- simachine
- The name of the SystemInstaller command to define ma
- chines.
- siimage
- The name of the SystemInstaller command to define im
- ages.
- sidisk
- The name of the SystemInstaller command to define disk
- tables.
- mkaiscript
- The name of the SystemImager command to create auto
- install scripts.
- addclients
- The name of the SystemImager command to define ma
- chines.
- delimage
- The name of the SystemImager command to delete images.
- ipmeth
- The default method for IP address assignment. Valid
- values are:
- static_dhcp The same address will be assigned by DHCP
- at every boot.
dynamic_dhcp A different address may be assigned by - DHCP at every boot.
static IP addresses are manually set.
replicant IP addresses are not set. This is used when - backing up a machine.
- piaction
- The default action to take after installation is com
- plete. Valid values are:
- beep Beep incessantly.
reboot Restart the machine.
shutdown Halt the machine. - disktype
- The default disk type. Valid values are: ide, scsi
- rpm The command to use to install rpm packages.
- rpmargs
- Additional arguments to add to the rpm command during
- installation. With some distros (Mandrake, Suse) the --noscripts
- option needs to be specified.
- rpmrc
- The filename of the rpmrc file. This is used to deter
- mine architecture compatability.
- dpkg
- The command to use to install Debian packages.
- verbose
- Tells SystemInstaller commands to use verbose output.
- 0=no, 1=yes. Also settable with the --verbose flag on individual
- comands.
- pkgcachefile
- The filename to store the generated package cache in.
- A file with this name will be placed in any package directory
- when an image is built. If the value of this variable starts with
- a /. It will be considered an absolute path and the file will be
- placed there.
- pkginstfail
- Whether to fail the image build when package installa
- tion fails. 0=no, 1=yes.
- postinstfail
- Whether to fail the image build when post-installation
- fails. 0=no, 1=yes.
AUTHORS
Michael Chase-Salerno <mchasal@users.sf.net>
SEE ALSO
- AppConfig, perl
- perl v5.8.4 2002-05-09 SYS