On 04/10/2011, at 17:09, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > However, I have seen at least two places which have written > Jumpstart/Kickstart > based installers based on sysinstall. This use case is not uncommon. > For example, using an install.cfg was documented here, and people > have followed it: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pxe/article.html > > > If in the 10.0 timeframe, if we can provide something (bsdinstall, > pc-sysinstall, whatever) that has some compatibility with the old > sysinstall scripted syntax, that would be nice for users who have > built installers based on this stuff. >
I suspect this would be problematic because bsdinstall is architected differently to sysinstall and the later's scripting is based on calling various C functions :( Also things like dist names are different.. Don't let me stop you writing it though ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ 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"
