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> In-Reply-To: <48A3EC67.8040300@gmail.com> References: <g7v4tb$ija$1@ger.gmane.org> <85c4b1850808132308h3286ff34o16b9f19146e5ff48@mail.gmail.com> <48A3EC67.8040300@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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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