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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:45:51 +0200
From:      "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_Tymk=F3w?=" <sebastian.tymkow@gmail.com>
To:        "Matias Surdi" <matiassurdi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "make release" and sysinstall
Message-ID:  <692660060808140145n63d53ba0r3a11d4999ee45a80@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

This should help:

http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release.html
http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/release/install.cfg

I made my own release with ports on board without additional
post-installing.
This ports, are configured and ready to work "out of box".

Best regards,

Sebastian Tymkow

2008/8/14 Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com>

> Hi Riaan,
> Thanks a lot for your explanation, it's been very usefull to me, really.
>
> I've been looking about Freesbie, but it seems abandoned.... and on their
> mailing list there is no post since a couple of months.
>
> PfSense, which I use here, uses bsdInstaller but it's last "new" is from
> Aug 02 2005, so, it seems abandoned also.
>
> More of the same with the "livecd" port... the scripts are not up to date
> with current FreeBSD releases.
>
> I'll give a sigth to nanoBSD., but for the moment it seems that where I c=
an
> get more support/documentation is with sysinstall and standard FreeBSD
> tools.
>
>
> Another question:
>
> Suppose I create my own install.cfg for sysinstall and then I do a "make
> release".If my sysinstall contains a couple of freeBSD packages (bash,
> python, etc..) plus a custom package created by me.. How must I instruct
> "make release" to include just those packages in the final CDROM?
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Riaan Kruger escribi=F3:
>
>  Sysinstall has a configuration file with wich you can specify several
>> options, see man sysinstall(8) for more details.  When making a
>> release you set the sysinstalls configuration file with the
>> LOCAL_PATCHES option to patch it to the chroot environment release
>> build environment.
>>
>> We use it to create a automatic install for a host that we know
>> exactly how the disks will be partitioned, what packages are installed
>> what users etc.
>>
>> Here is an snippet of our patch file, (please note I have changed some
>> of the names to protect the guilty :) )
>>
>> --- /dev/null Sat Jan 26 17:11:01 2008
>> +++ release/install.cfg Sat Jan 26 17:17:46 2008
>> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
>> +debug=3Dyes
>> +
>> +nonInteractive=3Dyes
>> +hostname=3Da.b.c
>> +domainname=3Db.c
>> +
>> +mediaSetCDROM
>> +
>> +distSetMinimum
>> +
>> +disk=3Dar0
>>
>>
>> etc, etc
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> PS. You could also look at what nanobsd and I think pfsense does. I
>> think they use a different approach.  I have heard sysinstall should
>> have been "killed" a long time ago but it still works well for us.
>>
>>
>> Riaan
>>
>> On 8/13/08, Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> Suppose I build my own FreeBSD based distro, as described in release(7)=
.
>>> How can I script sysinstall or replace it with another installer to
>>> customize the installation process?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
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