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Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> writes:
: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Warner Losh <i...@freebsd.org> wrote:
: > Author: imp
: > Date: Thu Jun 24 22:21:47 2010
: > New Revision: 209513
: > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209513
: >
: > Log:
: > Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD. This
: > shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer. It
: > contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present
: > reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow
: > the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk. It
: > supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced
: > features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.
: >
: > While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended
: > scripted installations. In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are
: > scripted and all the front-end does is write the script. As such, it
: > is useful in its own right.
: >
: > This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of
: > PC-BSD. However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD
: > suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences
: > are discovered and corrected.
: >
: > A text-based front-end is in the works. For the GUI-based front-end,
: > you can use the PC-BSD distribution.
: >
: > Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the
: > BSDcan site:
: > http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html
: >
: > The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for
: > the FreeBSD integration. Kris wrote the rest.
: >
: > This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo.
: > http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall
: >
: > Submitted by: kris@
: > Sponsored by: iX Systems
:
: Maybe now would be a good time to introduce build tunables for
: adding/removing pc-sysinstall and/or sysinstall, like pkg_install has?
I think that would be somewhat premature.
Warner
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