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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man8/autoinstall.8 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man8/autoinstall.8 b/static/openbsd/man8/autoinstall.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9fef3643 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man8/autoinstall.8 @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: autoinstall.8,v 1.25 2021/11/08 16:12:10 kn Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Robert Peichaer <rpe@openbsd.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 8 2021 $ +.Dt AUTOINSTALL 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm autoinstall +.Nd unattended OpenBSD installation and upgrade +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +allows unattended installation or upgrade of +.Ox +by automatically responding to installer questions with +answers from a response file. +.Nm +uses DHCP to discover the location of the response +file and HTTP to fetch the file. +If that fails, the installer asks for the location which can either be +a URL or a local path. +.Pp +See +.Xr install.site 5 +for how to provide custom configuration. +.Pp +To start unattended installation or upgrade choose '(A)utoinstall' at the +install prompt. +If there is only one network interface, the installer fetches the response +file via that interface. +If there is more than one network interface, a selection is presented +and the installer fetches the response file via the selected interface. +.Pp +If the machine is netbooted, the +.Nm +feature is invoked if the user does not intervene within +a short time. +It behaves as if the user selected '(A)utoinstall', but +always fetches the response file via the netboot interface. +.Pp +If either +.Pa /auto_install.conf +or +.Pa /auto_upgrade.conf +is found on +.Pa bsd.rd Ns 's +built-in RAM disk, +.Nm +behaves as if the machine is netbooted, but uses the local response file. +In case both files exist, +.Pa /auto_install.conf +takes precedence. +.Pp +.Nm +uses HTTP to fetch one of the files +.Pa install.conf , +.Ar MAC_address Ns - Ns Pa install.conf +or +.Ar hostname Ns - Ns Pa install.conf +for install answers, or one of +.Pa upgrade.conf , +.Ar MAC_address Ns - Ns Pa upgrade.conf +or +.Ar hostname Ns - Ns Pa upgrade.conf +for upgrade answers. +.Pp +The URL used to fetch the file is constructed from +.Xr dhcp-options 5 +statements extracted from the DHCP lease file. +.Ic next-server +specifies the +.Ar server . +.Ic filename +specifies the +.Ar filename . +The statement +.Ic option host-name +specifies the +.Ar hostname +which is also used as the default hostname during installation. +.Pp +If +.Ar filename +is +.Cm auto_install , +then the URLs tried are, in order: +.Sm off +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.No http:// Ar server No / Ar MAC_address No -install.conf +.No http:// Ar server No / Ar hostname No -install.conf +.No http:// Ar server No /install.conf +.Ed +.Sm on +.Pp +where +.Ar MAC_address +is a string of six hex octets separated by colons +representing the MAC +address of the interface being used to fetch the files. +.Pp +If +.Ar filename +is +.Cm auto_upgrade , +the URLs tried are, in order: +.Sm off +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +.No http:// Ar server No / Ar MAC_address No -upgrade.conf +.No http:// Ar server No / Ar hostname No -upgrade.conf +.No http:// Ar server No /upgrade.conf +.Ed +.Sm on +.Pp +On architectures where the +.Ic filename +statement is used to provide the name of the file to netboot +it is necessary to create symbolic links called +.Pa auto_install +and +.Pa auto_upgrade +that point to the expected boot program +and to change the value of the +.Ic filename +statement in the +.Xr dhcpd.conf 5 +file to be +.Cm auto_install +or +.Cm auto_upgrade . +.Pp +To use a subdirectory as response file location on the HTTP server, the same +directory structure containing the symbolic links has to exist in the tftproot +directory. +The value of +.Ic filename +has to be the full path to these symbolic links, and the HTTP and TFTP servers +must be on the same machine. +.Pp +The response file is a line-oriented ASCII text file. +The format of each line is: +.Pp +.D1 Ar question No = Ar answer +.Pp +.Ar question +is an installer question (not including the question mark) or a non-ambiguous +part of it, consisting of whitespace separated words. +.Ar answer +is the answer to the question. +Passwords may be in plaintext, encrypted with +.Xr encrypt 1 , +or set to +.Ql ************* +(13 '*'s) to disable password logins, only permitting alternative access methods +(for example, +.Xr ssh 1 +keys). +.Pp +If +.Nm +does not find an answer in the response file, the default answer as +provided by the installer is used. +.Pp +The response file may contain answers to the following questions, which are +only available during unattended installation to provide additional installer +features: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Public ssh key for root account = Ar ssh key +.Ar ssh key +is stored in +.Pa /root/.ssh/authorized_keys . +.It Public ssh key for user puffy = Ar ssh key +.Ar ssh key +is stored in +.Pa ~puffy/.ssh/authorized_keys . +.It URL to autopartitioning template for disklabel = Ar url +A template file for +.Xr disklabel 8 +autopartitioning is fetched from +.Ar url +allowing a custom partition layout for the root disk. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width "/etc/dhcpd.confXXX" -compact +.It Pa /etc/dhcpd.conf +.Xr dhcpd 8 +configuration file +.It Pa install.conf +response file for unattended installation +.It Pa upgrade.conf +response file for unattended upgrade +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +A typical +.Pa install.conf +file will look something like this: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +System hostname = server1 +Password for root = $2b$14$Z4xRMg8vDpgYH...GVot3ySoj8yby +Change the default console to com0 = yes +Which speed should com0 use = 19200 +Setup a user = puffy +Password for user = ************* +Public ssh key for user = ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1...g3Aqre puffy@ai +What timezone are you in = Europe/Stockholm +Location of sets = http +HTTP Server = cdn.openbsd.org +.Ed +.Pp +The same file could be used for upgrades by creating a symbolic link called +.Pa upgrade.conf +that points to +.Pa install.conf . +The upgrade process will only use the answers it needs. +.Pp +And an example +.Xr dhcpd.conf 5 +.Ic host +declaration: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +host foo { + hardware ethernet 00:50:60:49:8b:84; + fixed-address 192.168.2.180; + filename "auto_install"; + option host-name "foo"; +} +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dhcp-options 5 , +.Xr dhcpd.conf 5 , +.Xr install.site 5 , +.Xr diskless 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +feature first appeared in +.Ox 5.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Robert Peichaer Aq Mt rpe@openbsd.org |
