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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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> What I'd like to do is to develop an "in-house" customized FreeBSD

>  o The installation would go *much* faster (Ethernet vs 56K)

Just select FTP or NFS transfer as the Media.

>  o The installed system would be already fully customized for
>    our local site (eg, /etc/sysconfig).

Best bet (what we settle on here):  make a cookie-cutter /etc
tar it up, and after a normal install, ftp it into /
mv /etc /etc.old
untar the new /etc

You can creat a tar file with all the other files (mostly /usr/local)
to add aftter that.

You only need custom installation for modified kernel settings and/or
device drivers. I'm still trying to figure out how to do this one :-)

-coranth

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