Hi, If pc-sysinstall can be a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in "SCRIPT SYNTAX" mode, even better. sysinstall needs to go... while people do use it, it has a lot of problems that aren't getting fixed, and it is clear that bsdinstall is the future for FreeBSD installation.
Nathan is doing a good thing by forcing the issue by removing it....there is too much brokenness in sysinstall that is not getting fixed, and the sooner we can move to bsdinstall/pc-sysinstall, the better. Since the sysinstall removal is happening only in HEAD/10.0, we have some time to fix the issues before 10.0 is released. -- Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@crodrigues.org> > wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >>> Author: nwhitehorn >>> Date: Mon Oct 3 15:13:09 2011 >>> New Revision: 225937 >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 >>> >>> Log: >>> Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one >>> digit beyond your time. >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Wow, finally someone brave enough to put the stake through the heart >> of sysinstall. :) >> >> In the sysinstall man page, the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" documents how >> to create a script file which can be passed as an argument to sysinstall >> so that instead of running in an interactive menu system, >> installation/configuration commands are run in batch mode. >> >> I have seen some places write customized FreeBSD installers >> use this feature for doing unattended customized installs of FreeBSD. >> >> Can bsdinstall be used as a drop-in replacement for >> sysinstall when run with the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" batch mode? >> If not, how much code would need to be added to bsdinstall? Or, is there >> some other utility, such as something from the PC-BSD suite of scripts, >> that can be used as a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in "SCRIPT >> SYNTAX" mode? > > bsdinstall AFAIK isn't designed to do this. pc-sysinstall is a much > better method to accomplish this task. > > That being said, pc-sysinstall integration is probably coming sometime > in the next 1-2 years.. > > -Garrett > -- Craig Rodrigues rodr...@crodrigues.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
