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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 04/10/2011, at 17:09, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> However, I have seen at least two places which have written Jumpstart/Kickstart
> based installers based on sysinstall.  This use case is not uncommon.
> For example, using an install.cfg was documented here, and people
> have followed it:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pxe/article.html
> 
> 
> If in the 10.0 timeframe, if we can provide something (bsdinstall,
> pc-sysinstall, whatever) that has some compatibility with the old
> sysinstall scripted syntax, that would be nice for users who have
> built installers based on this stuff.
> 

I suspect this would be problematic because bsdinstall is architected differently to sysinstall and the later's scripting is based on calling various C functions :(

Also things like dist names are different..

Don't let me stop you writing it though ;)

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