Creating one's own installer/mfsroot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:40, Matthew X. Economou wrote:
> Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot
> images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using
> sysinstall)?  It appears that one could develop a simplified
> network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel,
> newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the
> usual scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk).

You could see how make release & FreeSBiE do it.

> (sysinstall requires too specific a configuration for my needs, which
> are focused on en masse - and zero touch - workstation and server
> deployment.)

sysinstall will look for an install.cfg file in the mfsroot and run it 
so you should be able to do it that way with perhaps some small 
modification to sysinstall.

Might be less work to tweak sysinstall rather than starting from 
scratch.

This might be of interest BTW.. 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html

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