Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:17:46 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 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 Message-ID: <CAGH67wQL-A_sxfVgweOD=F1iDETJu2iq9dGk3_3jGBgkqDVt4Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVfLzEcF=jtj71a9m%2BrFvj1xHHy%2BMfHwi2Y%2BZQiwhwmx3Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <CAG=rPVfLzEcF=jtj71a9m%2BrFvj1xHHy%2BMfHwi2Y%2BZQiwhwmx3Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> wr= ote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>= wrote: >> Author: nwhitehorn >> Date: Mon Oct =A03 15:13:09 2011 >> New Revision: 225937 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 >> >> Log: >> =A0Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is = one >> =A0digit beyond your time. > > > Hi, > > Wow, finally someone brave enough to put =A0the 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? =A0Or, is the= re > 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
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