From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 22:55:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B85C1065672; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hugeraid.jetcafe.org (hugeraid.jetcafe.org [205.147.26.109]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F187C8FC12; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hugeraid.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugeraid.jetcafe.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q5EMmHHM088475; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <201206142248.q5EMmHHM088475@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4FD9EA91.9050603@freebsd.org> References: <201206140414.q5E4EoYS073300@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <4FD9EA91.9050603@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:48:17 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bsdinstall on release 8.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:55:33 -0000 Nathan Whitehorn writes: > On 06/13/12 23:14, Dave Hayes wrote: >> Hello. I'm trying vainly to get bsdinstall to work on FreeBSD 8.3, and >> I'm wondering just what it would take to get this package to build? > It won't work without a lot of effort. It depends on a new version of > libdialog, for one, but also a number of library and kernel changes. > What you *can* do is use bsdinstall to install an 8.3 system from 9.0 > media by replacing its distributions tarballs with older ones. Ok, thanks for that. I have rather unusual constraints which force me to have it work on 8.3 or not use it at all. I guess the next idea would be to replace the binary executables with scripts that do roughly the same things on FreeBSD 8. Did you build any extensibility options into the tool (other than running based on shell scripts) which I should know about? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realize the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.