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From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: man sysinstall
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date.  I
> > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install.
> > 
> > I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels
> > GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the
> > list in the man page.
> > 
> > Is there anyone in charge of updating this
> > information?  I have never submitted an update.
> 
> I guess that's me.  Could you please raise a PR and send me the number?

I tried with almost every version of 5.X to get an unattended
install working.  Never worked.  It seems as if sysinstall
was looking only for a USB floppy drive.  Originally I started
looking over the code to send in a PR and perhaps a patch,
but became busy with other things.

-- 
Tom Rhodes