From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 22:17:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E246106564A; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D088FC14; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so2612368qad.13 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:17:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EDtbfcvdN0DID3jBaylcMF23ZqPoLzEcM6rMIglXgj0=; b=upAC1P4Q/9EeiTLNVEJDfFooG9e/X0mKoune0vARjNoqVGcHCymI5jOLFctAVDw3y5 gyMnpJnw3/p2197l/MIwooQTEx4WuWH+b6OkXWgiVq7ZLLqEd8JY09HYEfPzm1VUGZku HpJMnOoVE0aHQGS9+F851aYXUJvDwnJR3U2Gs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.175.82 with SMTP id w18mr396112qaz.374.1317680266284; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.74.82 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:17:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:17:46 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Craig Rodrigues Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn 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 X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:17:49 -0000 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues wr= ote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn = 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