getting involved and contributing

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:

> Hello all:
> I had a fewe questions I wanted to ask.
> I'm looking for areas in which I might contribute code (c/c++, Python etc). 
> As I'm new to the code contribution deal, I'd like to start off with 
> something small if possible. My interests are mainly in security and systems 
> development, though I'm probably not all that great at either. Similarly, I 
> had a few questions:
> 1) what is a free or cheap method for testing code, branches etc? I have two 
> systems here, but I am unable to duel boot.
> 2) I could use VMWare for testing, but that limits my ability to do much 
> testing. Given that though, is there a way to automate the install of BSD? 
> Basically: I am blind and am unable to install BSD by myself without help. 
> Solutions exist for serial ports, but I've not really had much great luck 
> connecting to that through a host. If there's a solution for a scripted 
> install, that would be awesome.

pc-sysinstall(8) can do a scripted install.  There are some examples in 
/usr/share/examples/pc-sysinstall.