Building your own FreeBSD installation CD-ROM

[Francois Tigeot]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 06:14:52PM +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> 
> how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be 
> able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install 
> process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to 
> install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install 
> straight away. I could also set up cfengine so that as soon as the 
> machine came to life it could go and connect to my cfengine repository 
> and download all the latest configurations to move into operational status.

There is some documentation in /usr/src/release on how to build a custom
release (I did it successfully around 4.4 time).

It is also possible to script the installer via a configuration file. Look at
sysinstall(8) manpage for details.

-- 
Francois Tigeot