getting involved and contributing
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 15 16:31:56 UTC 2014
On 03/05/14 19:51, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>> I had a fewe questions I wanted to ask.
>> I'm looking for areas in which I might contribute code (c/c++, Python
>> etc). As I'm new to the code contribution deal, I'd like to start off
>> with something small if possible. My interests are mainly in security
>> and systems development, though I'm probably not all that great at
>> either. Similarly, I had a few questions:
>> 1) what is a free or cheap method for testing code, branches etc? I
>> have two systems here, but I am unable to duel boot.
>> 2) I could use VMWare for testing, but that limits my ability to do
>> much testing. Given that though, is there a way to automate the
>> install of BSD? Basically: I am blind and am unable to install BSD by
>> myself without help. Solutions exist for serial ports, but I've not
>> really had much great luck connecting to that through a host. If
>> there's a solution for a scripted install, that would be awesome.
>
> pc-sysinstall(8) can do a scripted install. There are some examples
> in /usr/share/examples/pc-sysinstall.
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So can bsdinstall -- see the man page for examples.
-Nathan
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