On Saturday 06 March 2010 8:28:54 am Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'd also like to mention John saying you can build a custom mfsroot to use > additional tools during install...I go a different tack on this. I'm a huge > fan of python, and like to use it for installers. Rather than build a custom > mfsroot with python what I prefer to do is build a chroot that the target > machine boots diskless off. Then I chroot into that directory and install > whatever tools I want using ports/packages. I find that getting FreeBSD to > boot diskless is so easy that I've had it accidentally happen more than once > when I wanted something else to happen. Installing ports in a chroot is also > pretty trivial. Building a custom mfsroot has a bit of a learning curve with > a fairly expensive trial and error penalty.
I agree that building a custom mfsroot from scratch would be a bit of a PITA. I generally cheat by just patching src/release/<arch>/boot_crunch.conf to add the tools I want to use. I find dialog(1) useful for popping up sysinstall-style dialog boxes from shell scripts. I have also seen folks build a completely separate MFS root separate from the release process. While that was more tedious to get started, it was certainly more flexible. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
