From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 12:32: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DC837B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from red.tallence.de (red.tallence.de [212.77.172.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9304D43F93 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:32:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from lassitu.de (unknown [212.77.172.82]) by red.tallence.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDF233D05; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:31:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:32:07 +0100 Subject: Re: jumpstart for freebsd. Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG To: Anshuman Kanwar From: Stefan Bethke In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Am Donnerstag, 13.03.03, um 20:46 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Anshuman Kanwar: > I've spent most of last year automating the installation of FreeBSD > systems at my workplace. [...] > As a result of all the above, I wrote a set of perl scripts that do a > very similar job for FreeBSD. > [...] > If there is any interest in this work, I will be more than happy to > see it become one of the ways of installing FreeBSD. Of course, some > modifications would be required to make these scripts more generic, > robust and user friendly. > > The questions I have are: > 1) Is this duplication of any prev. work ? Can't speak to that, although I'm certain that many shops have custom scripts to do this. > 2) If no then how should I go about trying to integrate the code into > FreeBSD? You should try to create a port for it. The Porter's Handbook explains how to do that. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ index.html Also, you might want to compare your approach compares to FreeBSD From Scratch: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/ index.html Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message