Re: FreeBSD 5.x sysinstall

> Hi,
>
> I am currently upgrading from FreeBSD 4.8 to FreeBSD 5.x.
> The reason is that I would like to try some of the
> new features provided in 5.x, particulartly snapshots.
>
> I have a "kickstart" floppy that has served me well for
> BSD4.4 and 4.8. It has a kernel configured following
> the PICOBSD instructions. It automatically connects to an NFS
> server where the distributions are and installs
> them on the machine automatically (from an install.cfg
> file I provide at a well-known location).
>
> In FreeBSD 5.0 things aren't working. First of all,
> instead of the bin directory there is a base directory
> that is somehow confusing the original sysinstall.
> Secondly, the PICOBSD code doesn't compile on
> BSD5.0 and I haven't seen new source files.
>

Eno,
When I made WarBSD, I used the FreeBSD 5.0 sources and had to make some
modifications to the PicoBSD scripts.  They will work just fine for your
purposes.

You can find these mods here:
http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch
http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch2
http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch3
http://digiflux.org/warbsd/warbsd/picobsd.patch4

This should help with one of your problems.

-Stacy

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