[Bug 294844] articles/remote-install: Uses sysinstall which was removed in 10.0

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294844

            Bug ID: 294844
           Summary: articles/remote-install: Uses sysinstall which was
                    removed in 10.0
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Books & Articles
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]

This article was written in 2008 so uses sysinstall, but that was removed in
2011 in preparation for 2014's FreeBSD 10.0:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=225937

From https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes/
> sysinstall has been removed from the base system.
> Auxiliary libraries and tools used by sysinstall
> such as libdisk, libftpio, and sade have also been
> removed. sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall(8)
> and bsdconfig(8). (r225937)

So for most of its time on the website, this article's instructions haven't
worked.

Until it is rewritten to use modern tools, should a notice be placed on the
page to indicate the instructions only work on the (unsupported) FreeBSD 9?

I know the author mm@ is still active and there has been work underway on
mfsBSD related to https://freebsdfoundation.org/mfsbsd-in-base/ and the
following reviews (all open at time of typing):
 - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41704
 - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41705
 - https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41706 

If mfsBSD is imported into base, some of the instructions in the article would
change too (e.g. "Download and extract the latest mfsBSD release" would be
unnecessary).

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