From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 09:14:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602331065672 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sebastian.tymkow@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14358FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sebastian.tymkow@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so321515nfh.33 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:14:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=rGlxIte/R84G9iUbppHP6QZnjzrR7HuXH7qvSGAJB4k=; b=c45U+Q4Trhdi/KaWeF2+sVOhc8ikK7dFBqHDIA0FFkL37OKukFU+DAZVpsirBCExqu BA2GBP5jl4VMWS4m9JoHO1JxWJS7Z9wMiSXsOE2CiJZDhBTzUSzfytpN9JS6X5N4Tqp0 f/GXaejY2+rCESMCt8RUhLywhp3Xc7h66jSoE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=rd3Upg+QrzIy6+MA+9v0wGl/AeKB4R5qMoqKyPWW5VZrWDu2320402dKmQGRKChl60 6uF/tDA11goJSGpZiAhvLxZ1WzQ3AmTm8XfTW3bQHcsubb4+K7T0XinDGPeXs46gQW+x lZNmSVHxGl2yHSwq6lQXH9c+Yw3+sF3RixXgo= Received: by 10.210.120.17 with SMTP id s17mr1038618ebc.181.1218703551068; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.45.16 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <692660060808140145n63d53ba0r3a11d4999ee45a80@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:45:51 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_Tymk=F3w?=" To: "Matias Surdi" In-Reply-To: <48A3EC67.8040300@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <85c4b1850808132308h3286ff34o16b9f19146e5ff48@mail.gmail.com> <48A3EC67.8040300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make release" and sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:28 -0000 Hi, This should help: http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/FreeBSD-release.html http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/release/install.cfg I made my own release with ports on board without additional post-installing. This ports, are configured and ready to work "out of box". Best regards, Sebastian Tymkow 2008/8/14 Matias Surdi > Hi Riaan, > Thanks a lot for your explanation, it's been very usefull to me, really. > > I've been looking about Freesbie, but it seems abandoned.... and on their > mailing list there is no post since a couple of months. > > PfSense, which I use here, uses bsdInstaller but it's last "new" is from > Aug 02 2005, so, it seems abandoned also. > > More of the same with the "livecd" port... the scripts are not up to date > with current FreeBSD releases. > > I'll give a sigth to nanoBSD., but for the moment it seems that where I c= an > get more support/documentation is with sysinstall and standard FreeBSD > tools. > > > Another question: > > Suppose I create my own install.cfg for sysinstall and then I do a "make > release".If my sysinstall contains a couple of freeBSD packages (bash, > python, etc..) plus a custom package created by me.. How must I instruct > "make release" to include just those packages in the final CDROM? > > > Thanks a lot. > > > Riaan Kruger escribi=F3: > > Sysinstall has a configuration file with wich you can specify several >> options, see man sysinstall(8) for more details. When making a >> release you set the sysinstalls configuration file with the >> LOCAL_PATCHES option to patch it to the chroot environment release >> build environment. >> >> We use it to create a automatic install for a host that we know >> exactly how the disks will be partitioned, what packages are installed >> what users etc. >> >> Here is an snippet of our patch file, (please note I have changed some >> of the names to protect the guilty :) ) >> >> --- /dev/null Sat Jan 26 17:11:01 2008 >> +++ release/install.cfg Sat Jan 26 17:17:46 2008 >> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ >> +debug=3Dyes >> + >> +nonInteractive=3Dyes >> +hostname=3Da.b.c >> +domainname=3Db.c >> + >> +mediaSetCDROM >> + >> +distSetMinimum >> + >> +disk=3Dar0 >> >> >> etc, etc >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> PS. You could also look at what nanobsd and I think pfsense does. I >> think they use a different approach. I have heard sysinstall should >> have been "killed" a long time ago but it still works well for us. >> >> >> Riaan >> >> On 8/13/08, Matias Surdi wrote: >> >>> Hi again, >>> >>> Suppose I build my own FreeBSD based distro, as described in release(7)= . >>> How can I script sysinstall or replace it with another installer to >>> customize the installation process? >>> >>> >>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >