svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at 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?

Thanks.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org