From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 7:13:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC3337B404 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B7143E9C for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB7FDguF024734; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:13:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id gB7FDgjX024731; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:13:42 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:13:41 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: custom version of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20021207124839.GA1286@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:34:23AM -0900, Damien Hull wrote: > > Is it possible to create a custom version of FreeBSD? Say I want a web > > server installation. Can I create a custom version of FreeBSD that will > > create a web server for you when you do the installation? It should auto > > install apache etc.. All I should have to do is configure the drive and > > network settings. The rest should be done by the install process. > > Yes. /stand/sysinstall is scriptable (see the sysinstall(8) man page). > You can even go as far as building your own release with your own > kernel and other customizations. Another route would be to use LiveCD (/usr/ports/sysutils/livecd). Build a CD with the setup needed, and then use LiveCD's install script to install it on booting from the CD. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message