Custom FreeBSD iso CD

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Ok i know the answer is probably NO. But no harm in asking.

If i install FreeBSD on a system and install all ports i want and configure everything just the way i like. Is there a way to get ISO out of it to burn on CD and install on other computers in the future?

But i mean if there is EASY way. Not something i would have to be very advance user to do it right.

Thanks for answers.
 
There's no easy way, except perhaps sysutils/freesbie (but that's more geared towards a live CD).

A somewhat more involved way is to create your own release. Have a look at the files in /usr/src/release/ and release(7).
 
There is a certain windows, or on-cd, or on-its-partition,
(your choice at install)
dual boot manager that can do image backup, is shareware, that
I once made image files of the freebsd system (/, var, tmp, usr,
two partitions ), used the "partition work" icon in the
aforementioned shareware to install a BSD "fdisk" on the new
disk (AFAIK you can do that from the shareware on CDR),
wrote the saved image files (copy, paste in the partition manager),
to a new disk, swapped disks (or put in another computer, I forget),
and even though the original filesystem size was smaller for
/, var, tmp, usr, the fstab was the same, and upon reboot,
the new FreeBSD, perfectly cloned, had a larger disk size for
each of the four available. I did not know beforehand if
it would work but was surprised. I still use that shareware
for BSD stuff (just recently wrote a BSD partition header to
a drive so I could copy files off of it before newfs'ing it
again, it had unrecoverable errors from a wayward rsnapbackup.
(make that two drives, each of which...).
.........
#sync commands in the rsnap backup script I expect to
prevent the panic (twice) that hosed the partition table (twice)
hopefully.
.........
Sorry for the extra information. My other posts mention the
shareware...
 
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