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Subject: Re: starting sysinstall at boot time
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Quoting Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com>:
Hi Artis,


Thank you for your quick answer,

/sbin/init is actualy replaced by sysinstall because it is
not present on the mfsroot thus sysinstall is launched instead
of init.

Best regards,
Joel Levee.

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:49 PM,  <joel@levee-online.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Something seems magic in freebsd: I am looking for what does start
> > sysinstall at boot time when I boot from the installation CD.
> > The only thing related to systinstall is the setting of the init_path
> variable
> > in the loader.rc file but it is in comment thus the loader should finish
> > by launchinig init as usual so what does make it launch sysinstall instead?
>
> I think /sbin/init is replaced with sysinstall.
>
>
> > As you may guess, my goal is to create an customized installation CD in
> > order to install a network appliance wich embedds freebsd.
>
> I also use custom install script, and I replace /etc/rc on mfs image.
>
>
>
>
> --
> regards,
> Artis Caune
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