.Dd January 5, 2016
.Dt SYSINSTALL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sysinstall
.Nd operating system installer
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sysinstall
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is an interactive command line program that creates a new installation of the
operating system.
It asks basic questions, prepares a new root filesystem, makes a copy of the
current operating system there and configures it for usage.
The installation proceeds as described in
.Xr installation 7 .
.Pp
.Nm
must be run as root with stdin, stdout and stderr all pointing to the terminal.
It is intended to be run from a live environment and not from an actual
installation.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr autoinstall.conf 5 ,
.Xr installation 7 ,
.Xr sysupgrade 8