Generating ISO With Pre-Installed Packages

[Rick Miller]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Shawn Webb <lattera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I'm looking to generate a FreeBSD 9-stable (and maybe 10-current) ISO that
> has certain packages pre-installed. I'd like to create my own installation
> media that will have certain things installed, like a web management UI
> that I'm actively working on. It'd be like what pfSense does.
>
> I did do a little googling and found pfSense's build documentation for
> spinning a custom build of pfSense. I'll be spending the weekend looking
> over their work. But in the meantime, does anyone know of the steps
> involved in such a process? Is the process documented somewhere?


You're looking for package-split.py, a python script that generates
packages.  The blog post below may be of some use. It explains modifying
the script and generating a release.

http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/

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Take care
Rick Miller