Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:51:45 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tyler@tysdomain.com Subject: Re: getting involved and contributing Message-ID: <201403051451.45358.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com> References: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com>
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On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 1:40:52 pm Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all: > I had a fewe questions I wanted to ask. > I'm looking for areas in which I might contribute code (c/c++, Python > etc). As I'm new to the code contribution deal, I'd like to start off > with something small if possible. My interests are mainly in security > and systems development, though I'm probably not all that great at > either. Similarly, I had a few questions: > 1) what is a free or cheap method for testing code, branches etc? I have > two systems here, but I am unable to duel boot. > 2) I could use VMWare for testing, but that limits my ability to do much > testing. Given that though, is there a way to automate the install of > BSD? Basically: I am blind and am unable to install BSD by myself > without help. Solutions exist for serial ports, but I've not really had > much great luck connecting to that through a host. If there's a solution > for a scripted install, that would be awesome. If you have a new enough machine running FreeBSD you can use bhyve (or perhaps VirtualBox) as a hypervisor and do testing inside guests. (I do this on my laptop now.) As far as scripted installs: you can write your own install script. The ZFSOnRoot wiki pages actually have a decent set of steps one needs to do a manual install. You can use that as a basis for writing your own install script that uses gpart to layout a disk image file, mounts it via mdconfig and then untars the dists into the image. -- John Baldwin
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