From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 03:51:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A629ED3C for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 564D5763 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 03:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s263pa06050559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:51:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s263paIU050556; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:51:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:51:36 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: "Littlefield, Tyler" Subject: Re: getting involved and contributing In-Reply-To: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com> Message-ID: References: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:51:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:51:38 -0000 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.