Generating ISO With Pre-Installed Packages

[Lucas Holt]

As Rick pointed out, the package split script will get the packages on the media. You also need to modify the install process to actually install the default packages. You might want to look at the bsdinstall setup and add a script there to load the packages. Another approach is to create a script that runs on first boot that can install the packages via network or possibly off the media. For MidnightBSD, I created a firstboot script that prompts the user to install a graphical desktop environment and the fetched meta packages from our ports tree that would pull down everything required for kde or GNUstep + window maker. It was easier as we had sysinstall still. 

Lucas Holt

On 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shawn
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