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Why bootstrap? It seems to work AFAICT, judging by the diff output. If it works and there is nothing that horribly inefficient or slow about how it works, that's good enough for me. My main concern is that I want to be informed if something is wrong with this process that I don't know about, so that's in part why I post this.danbi said:One thing I always wonder is why people seems to keep on using the released FreeBSD versions to bootstrap new installations. True, this is how you get FreeBSD installed for the very first time or in case of total disaster. However, once you have at least one working FreeBSD system for the particular CPU architecture, you may build your own install 'distribution'. You can control the layout of your distribution and not have your scripts fail when the release puts things differently. You will also need only one medium to deal with.
I guess I'm not really sure of what the advantages are of (if I understand correctly what you are suggesting) using your home rolled installation USB to use in order to install things etc.
Thanks. I will try and look at it and understand it some more when I get some free time.Probably I am too much die-hard in this regard but I rarely trust prepackaged things. Here I will outline how to create an self-replicating FreeBSD-stable system.