Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "customizing" FreeBSD installs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808101656290.29015-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980808150656.A24024@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I'd like to know the implications of creating a "customized" FreeBSD install. > > Basically, since you know you're going to have this thing installed in, say, > South Africa, you can make certain assumptions. Basically, this entails > changing a few files in /etc, like make.conf (for USA_RESIDENT, > MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, etc) and similar files. > > I'd like to know whether doing something like this, changing a few > configuration files, would be allowed, since I'd like to make FreeBSD more > accessible for the many people I'm trying to convert here. (We have an > ever-growing Linux base here who are interested in FreeBSD for the servers > they administer, and I'd like to assimilate them sneakily. :>) No problems. If you sell it or whatever you have to abide by the terms of the copyrights and all but if you're just using it for local/personal use you should be fine. > Another project I'm interested in is one that involves installing and > configuring a couple of ports by default, in addition to the normal install. > IE, a "directed" install, for specific use. (I would start a company to do > this, but location and other problems prevent, so I'd like to make this > "freely" available.) You can do this through sysinstall's install.cfg mechanism. You'll have to checkout an entire source tree to roll your own installer; check the sysinstall manpage for details. You can view it by running 'groff -Tascii /usr/src/release/sysinstall/sysinstall.8 | more'. > I just want to know where I stand "legally" (and, of course, also what the > FreeBSD people think of it.) If you want to sell it, you'll have to defer that to those more experienced. :) But by all means go for it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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