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 6:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
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> 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..
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> http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/install-os.sh
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> 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
rodrigc at crodrigues.org