Add some general notes about scripted installations.

(cherry picked from commit 3b20b988e0)
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Nathan Whitehorn 2021-04-05 10:10:34 -04:00
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.El
.Sh SCRIPTING
.Nm
supports unattended, or minimally-attended, installations using scripting.
This can be used with either modified physical installation media or with
.Xr diskless 8
installations over the network; information on preparing such media can be
found in
.Sx BUILDING AUTOMATIC INSTALL MEDIA
.Pp
Scripted installations follow an essentially identical path to interactive
installations, though with some minor feature differences (for example,
scripted installations do not support fetching of remote distribution files
since scripted installations normally install the same files and the distributions
can be added directly to the installation media).
.Nm
scripts consist of two parts: a
.Em preamble
and a