Re: dragonfly livecd

[Scott Ullrich <geekgod@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Adrian!

The DragonFly Installer is actively maintained by a number of people. 
For more information, please visit http://www.bsdinstaller.org.

We generally are idling in #dfinstaller on EFNet if you would like to 
talk to us in person.

Regards,

Scott


adrian wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >     Also note that our installer is in fact a customization of the base
> >     live CD.  If you look at /usr/src/nrelease/Makefile you will note
> >     that the installer is built like this:
> >
> >     INSTALLER_ENV= EXTRA_PACKAGES="${INSTALLER_PKGS}" \
> >             EXTRA_ROOTSKELS="${INSTALLER_SKELS}"
> >
> >     installer_release:
> >             ${INSTALLER_ENV} ${MAKE} release
> >
> >     e.g. the installer target just makes the normal release target with
> >     EXTRA_PACKAGES and EXTRA_ROOTSKELS to specify the additional packages
> >     and the root filesystem override directory.  The installer's skeleton
> >     root filesystem override is in /usr/src/nrelease/installer.
> >
> >     It's definitely a few coasters but once you've played with it for 
> > a while
> >     building a customized ISO is *really* easy.
> >
> >                     -Matt
> I really like the installer , there are a couple bells and whistles I 
> would like to add , or help add , who is currently maintaining it/ 
> working on it ?
> I`ve done a couple one off hacked up one off installers for various 
> deployments of BSD and Linux. so I`ve already made some of the good 
> mistakes. I have hundreds of coasters.
>
> adrian