BSDInstall ISO images
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 8 22:54:44 UTC 2011
I've spent some time integrating bsdinstall into startup of install CDs,
mostly related to building useful live-CD-based installers. An i386
image can be found here (other architectures may follow, as my very slow
DSL line permits):
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110108.iso.bz2
The source for this can be found at:
svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/bsdinstall
The bits related to live CD usage are the testsystem.sh and rc.local
files. Instead of running sysinstall as an init replacement, I have
written a small rc.local script that gives the user the option to either
start the installer, open a single-user-mode style shell, or to continue
to boot to a multi-user live CD. Also, instead of the md root used by
sysinstall, this just boots from the CD directly. This prevents the need
for sysinstall's media selection, since the distribution files are in
the mounted root file system.
I would appreciate any comments or test results.
-Nathan
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