I modified the installer a while back to be able to install from a smb share. It needs a little work though. I'm looking for some feedback although I have
tested it recently. I have done a recent install from a Windows XP machine
joined to a domain using a share that had domain admin credentials.
http://futurebsd.sourceforge.net/freebsd/smbfs/
Here are a couple of issues that should be fixed.
1. I am not sure how to get the smbfs kernel support into the installer without also putting it into the GENERIC kernel of the release.
Probably not a big deal, unless it presents a security risk by default. I don't know enough about smbfs to say.
2. If a user uses is prompted for a password, then the output will make sysinstall look kinda funny, although the user can enter the password properly. There is probably a way to intercept the stdin and stdout of mount_smbfs and have it display in a menu? This should work similar to the root password change option?
Probably easiest to do it this way. Sysinstall isn't pretty, but making it uglier with misformatted dialogs isn't good either.
3. This may add too much space to the floppy installer?
No longer a problem now that the splitfs support is in.
4. The English used in the menus could be better.
Regards, David Yeske
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