From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 06:39:37 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 E3178106564A; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:39:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE7D8FC17; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so330459bkb.13 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:39:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=abLRvur4GYIrkrB1IhiGpvFLYRC5IBjbP+9xx7piFzY=; b=pIkwXDbH8rOstkaQvYCkvXiEHyt9RhvyiESRDTtNSZWj0B+Payy1LSxV4tEI5xhnhW EKsZAmKUvb5nuZaBW3eQM5i6GPP6fG3ItV/W2i+iOJ/de9VBYA/DJDZonoAsFUC/lbMJ NWUZcOHFRzrEH9UbME+S24atZ+6rrXy70ON6Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.129.4 with SMTP id m4mr430378bks.251.1317710375655; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.132.140 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:39:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:39:35 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: QI1yheuMS033CnFUJxARIMcpKO4 Message-ID: From: Craig Rodrigues To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 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: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:39:38 -0000 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor wro= te: > > No it can't, but speaking as someone who used this feature in sysinstall= =85 Good riddance :) > > I wrote a shell script which does an install itself (i.e. no bsdinstall -= which is just [mostly] a shell script). > > It is 200 lines, a fair chunk of which is pre-canned stuff to go into rc.= conf, loader.conf, etc.. > > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/install-os.sh > > I also modified the rc.local script the installer uses to add an option t= o call my script. Hi, Indeed, I have written my own Bourne shell based installers for FreeBSD in two different companies I have worked for. The path you went down to do this is not uncommon.....many people walk down the same path to write in their own installer in shell scripts, and the results are often better than sysinstall. However, I have seen at least two places which have written Jumpstart/Kicks= tart 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. --=20 Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org