Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:32:07 +0100 From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> To: Anshuman Kanwar <anshuman@expertcity.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jumpstart for freebsd. Message-ID: <DBC3888C-5592-11D7-999B-000393496BE8@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0303131141530.2964-100000@KANWAR2K>
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Am Donnerstag, 13.03.03, um 20:46 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Anshuman Kanwar: > I've spent most of last year automating the installation of FreeBSD > systems at my workplace. [...] > As a result of all the above, I wrote a set of perl scripts that do a > very similar job for FreeBSD. > [...] > If there is any interest in this work, I will be more than happy to > see it become one of the ways of installing FreeBSD. Of course, some > modifications would be required to make these scripts more generic, > robust and user friendly. > > The questions I have are: > 1) Is this duplication of any prev. work ? Can't speak to that, although I'm certain that many shops have custom scripts to do this. > 2) If no then how should I go about trying to integrate the code into > FreeBSD? You should try to create a port for it. The Porter's Handbook explains how to do that. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ index.html Also, you might want to compare your approach compares to FreeBSD From Scratch: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/ index.html Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 170 346 0140 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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