Unattended Install - Single Installer, Multiple Configs
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:39:20 UTC
After reading the documentation for bsdinstall about unattended installation, I have a question about alternatives. I have a goal of having a set of different configurations that will be installed automatically. It appears that this would require creating separate media (ISO images) for each variation. Is there an alternative where the installation media can be modified in a generic way which would then have bsdinstall search for installerconfig in a separate location like another mounted ISO? The reason for this would be to make the modification to the installer once and then have the variants held in smaller, faster to create ISOs. This is the paradigm for Windows where the installer ISO will search for autounattend.xml in the root of a mounted CD image. In a similar paradigm, Ubuntu's installer ISO requires that the grub.cfg file be modified to add "autoinstall" and then the ISO rebuilt. The installer then searches for user-data and meta-data on a mounted CD with an image name CIDATA. Both of these paradigms have a single large installer ISO and as many smaller config-only ISOs for each different variation to be deployed. Is there a way to do something similar with FreeBSD bsdinstall, or is the only option to make a full ISO for each variation?