On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@crodrigues.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> > wrote: >> Author: nwhitehorn >> Date: Mon Oct 3 15:13:09 2011 >> New Revision: 225937 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225937 >> >> Log: >> Farewall, sysinstall! You served us well for many years, but 10.0 is one >> digit beyond your time. > > > Hi, > > Wow, finally someone brave enough to put the stake through the heart > of sysinstall. :) > > In the sysinstall man page, the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" documents how > to create a script file which can be passed as an argument to sysinstall > so that instead of running in an interactive menu system, > installation/configuration commands are run in batch mode. > > I have seen some places write customized FreeBSD installers > use this feature for doing unattended customized installs of FreeBSD. > > Can bsdinstall be used as a drop-in replacement for > sysinstall when run with the "SCRIPT SYNTAX" batch mode? > If not, how much code would need to be added to bsdinstall? Or, is there > some other utility, such as something from the PC-BSD suite of scripts, > that can be used as a drop-in replacement for sysinstall in "SCRIPT > SYNTAX" mode?
bsdinstall AFAIK isn't designed to do this. pc-sysinstall is a much better method to accomplish this task. That being said, pc-sysinstall integration is probably coming sometime in the next 1-2 years.. -Garrett _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"