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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:51:36 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting involved and contributing
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403052049010.50538@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com>
References:  <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, 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.

pc-sysinstall(8) can do a scripted install.  There are some examples in 
/usr/share/examples/pc-sysinstall.



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