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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
Subject: Re: Using PC-Sysinstall for automated network installs of FreeBSD
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Mark Saad wrote:

> All
> I wanted to share with you my method for network installs of FreeBSD
> 9.1-RCn . This does not use PC-BSD just stock FreeBSD. This should
> work on 9.0-RELEASE is known to work on 9.1-RC's and BETA.
>
> I decided to use pc-sysinstall in place of bsdinstall as pc-sysinstall
> supported using a config file that could be passed to the installer
> much like the old sysinstall way of doing things.

This is really nice--thank you!