From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 07:00:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB14B106564A; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351EE8FC12; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p946xoGk009562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:29:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:29:49 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> To: Craig Rodrigues X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Spam-Score: -4.391 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 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-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:00:09 -0000 On 04/10/2011, at 17:09, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > However, I have seen at least two places which have written = Jumpstart/Kickstart > 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 >=20 >=20 > 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 I suspect this would be problematic because bsdinstall is architected = differently to sysinstall and the later's scripting is based on calling = various C functions :( Also things like dist names are different.. Don't let me stop you writing it though ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C