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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Warner Losh
ecc12db0a4 pc-sysinstall(8) patch that allows images to be written to disks
This patch creates the "image" directive for the pc-sysinstall config
file. This allows disks to be configured with an image instead of
partitioning.

PR:		150137
Submitted by:	John Hixson
2010-09-08 20:10:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
a5a3ab24a4 Various updates to support new pc-sysinstall directive
"installPackages" that will install packages and all package
dependencies.

PR:		148606
Submitted by:	John Hixon
2010-08-19 05:59:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
9ae036550c Add support for packages.
PR:		148584
Submitted by:	John Hixon
2010-07-13 23:47:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
202d71e3bf A few patches from Ed Maste by way of Kris Moore
1. Change detect-vmware to detect-emulation
2. improve laptop detection
3. better, network descriptions
2010-07-06 23:29:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
73d3a33a3f Update pc-sysinstall to output list of FTP mirrors as well as some
installation information.  Export architecture to install.

PR:		148184
Submitted by:	John Hixson
2010-06-27 17:04:03 +00:00
Warner Losh
4bbc5bd8e0 Bring in Kris Moore's pc-sysinstall shell script from PC-BSD. This
shell script is the back end logic necessary for an installer.  It
contains both query routines to allow a front-end installer to present
reasonable choices to the user and also action routines which allow
the front end installer to put a FreeBSD distribution onto a disk.  It
supports installing onto the usual suspects, as well as advanced
features like Mirroring, ZFS, Encryprion and GPT labels.

While this is only the back-end of the installer, it can do unattended
scripted installations.  In PC-BSD's world view, all installations are
scripted and all the front-end does is write the script.  As such, it
is useful in its own right.

This has been extensively tested over the past several releases of
PC-BSD.  However, differences between that environment and FreeBSD
suggest there will be a period of shake-out while those differences
are discovered and corrected.

A text-based front-end is in the works.  For the GUI-based front-end,
you can use the PC-BSD distribution.

Kris' BSDcan paper on pc-sysinstall is linked off his talk on the
BSDcan site:
	http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/173.en.html

The man page is written by Josh Paetzel, and I wrote the Makefiles for
the FreeBSD integration.  Kris wrote the rest.

This represents version r7010 in the PC-BSD repo.
http://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/pc-sysinstall

Submitted by:	kris@
Sponsored by:	iX Systems
2010-06-24 22:21:47 +00:00