Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:26:26 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@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: <4E8B0982.8010508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <D6E8DE41-67EB-4886-8EA1-2F60D3EF81A0@gsoft.com.au> References: <201110031513.p93FD9ev015593@svn.freebsd.org> <CAG=rPVfLzEcF=jtj71a9m%2BrFvj1xHHy%2BMfHwi2Y%2BZQiwhwmx3Q@mail.gmail.com> <D6E8DE41-67EB-4886-8EA1-2F60D3EF81A0@gsoft.com.au>
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On 10/03/11 20:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 04/10/2011, at 8:41, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> Can bsdinstall be used as a drop-in replacement for >> sysinstall when run with the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" batch mode? >> If not, how much code would need to be added to bsdinstall? Or, is there >> some other utility, such as something from the PC-BSD suite of scripts, >> that can be used as a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in "SCRIPT >> SYNTAX" mode? > No it can't, but speaking as someone who used this feature in sysinstall… Good riddance :) > > I wrote a shell script which does an install itself (i.e. no bsdinstall - which is just [mostly] a shell script). > > It is 200 lines, a fair chunk of which is pre-canned stuff to go into rc.conf, loader.conf, etc.. > > http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/install-os.sh > > I also modified the rc.local script the installer uses to add an option to call my script. > Although pc-sysinstall is probably the [much] better choice for scripting, there are facilities in bsdinstall to help writing of custom installers like this, and the regular installer is in fact an example of a scripted install. There's some more information in bsdinstall(8) for the curious. -Nathan
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