Bsdinstall on release 8.3?

[Dave Hayes]

Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
> On 06/13/12 23:14, Dave Hayes wrote:
>> Hello. I'm trying vainly to get bsdinstall to work on FreeBSD 8.3, and
>> I'm wondering just what it would take to get this package to build? 
> It won't work without a lot of effort. It depends on a new version of 
> libdialog, for one, but also a number of library and kernel changes. 
> What you *can* do is use bsdinstall to install an 8.3 system from 9.0 
> media by replacing its distributions tarballs with older ones.

Ok, thanks for that. I have rather unusual constraints which force me to
have it work on 8.3 or not use it at all. 

I guess the next idea would be to replace the binary executables with
scripts that do roughly the same things on FreeBSD 8. Did you build any
extensibility options into the tool (other than running based on shell
scripts) which I should know about? 
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