svn commit: r225937 - in head: . release release/amd64 release/i386 release/ia64 release/pc98 release/powerpc release/scripts release/sparc64 usr.sbin usr.sbin/sysinstall

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Mon Oct  3 15:13:09 2011
>> New Revision: 225937
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937
>>
>> Log:
>>  Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one
>>  digit beyond your time.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Wow, finally someone brave enough to put  the stake through the heart
> of sysinstall. :)
>
> In the sysinstall man page, the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" documents how
> to create a script file which can be passed as an argument to sysinstall
> so that instead of running in an interactive menu system,
> installation/configuration commands are run in batch mode.
>
> I have seen some places write customized FreeBSD installers
> use this feature for doing unattended customized installs of FreeBSD.
>
> Can bsdinstall be used as a drop-in replacement for
> sysinstall when run with the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" batch mode?
> If not, how much code would need to be added to bsdinstall?  Or, is there
> some other utility, such as something from the PC-BSD suite of scripts,
> that can be used as a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in "SCRIPT
> SYNTAX" mode?

bsdinstall AFAIK isn't designed to do this. pc-sysinstall is a much
better method to accomplish this task.

That being said, pc-sysinstall integration is probably coming sometime
in the next 1-2 years..

-Garrett