On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor <docon...@gsoft.com.au> wrote: > > No it can't, but speaking as someone who used this feature in sysinstall… > Good riddance :) > > I wrote a shell script which does an install itself (i.e. no bsdinstall - > which is just [mostly] a shell script). > > It is 200 lines, a fair chunk of which is pre-canned stuff to go into > rc.conf, loader.conf, etc.. > > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/install-os.sh > > I also modified the rc.local script the installer uses to add an option to > call my script.
Hi, Indeed, I have written my own Bourne shell based installers for FreeBSD in two different companies I have worked for. The path you went down to do this is not uncommon.....many people walk down the same path to write in their own installer in shell scripts, and the results are often better than sysinstall. However, I have seen at least two places which have written Jumpstart/Kickstart based installers based on sysinstall. This use case is not uncommon. For example, using an install.cfg was documented here, and people have followed it: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pxe/article.html If in the 10.0 timeframe, if we can provide something (bsdinstall, pc-sysinstall, whatever) that has some compatibility with the old sysinstall scripted syntax, that would be nice for users who have built installers based on this stuff. -- 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"
