Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:29:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> 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 Message-ID: <B308FD1D-B8C2-4C8F-8A1E-3AFE2D9A5AF7@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVcxses%2BvwywcDqSkJEOmPPL1DUvuayTX4pVepbMhmLA%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <CAG=rPVfLzEcF=jtj71a9m%2BrFvj1xHHy%2BMfHwi2Y%2BZQiwhwmx3Q@mail.gmail.com> <D6E8DE41-67EB-4886-8EA1-2F60D3EF81A0@gsoft.com.au> <CAG=rPVcxses%2BvwywcDqSkJEOmPPL1DUvuayTX4pVepbMhmLA%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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