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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2007 14:10:53 -0400
From:      "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Creating one's own installer/mfsroot
Message-ID:  <B9638CACBA387E48927BB56B6A1555070DA1AE@svr1.irtnog.org>

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Could anyone recommend a good guide for developing one's own mfsroot
images suitable for recovery or scripted installation (not using
sysinstall)?  It appears that one could develop a simplified
network-based installation process based around fdisk, disklabel,
newfs, mount_ufs, fetch, and pax, perhaps tied together with the usual
scripting tools (maybe miniperl or sh/sed/awk).

(sysinstall requires too specific a configuration for my needs, which
are focused on en masse - and zero touch - workstation and server
deployment.)

Best wishes,
Matthew

-- 
"Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more
than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery."
  - A. C. Hobbs in _Locks and Safes_ (1853)


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