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From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To: Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net>
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Subject: Re: Creating Floppy Disks To Austomate Inatallation
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Never tried it but I guess could work?

1) download source on master machine
2) make buildworld (see tuturial on website)
3) make floppy with nfs, make, whatever the hell else is needed by
installworld

actually, I guess you could just nfs the other utilities instead of
putting them on the disk.  

4) nfs mount the master on each clients (using a script upon startup on
the floppy?)

5) if all the machines are the same, (or the harddrives anyway) you could
automatically fdisk, etc. with the script.  If not, I guess you might have
to do that manually? (anyone?)

6) cd /usr/src;make installworld

I think I'm missing a step or two, I have a nasty flu and can hardly walk
straight!

Good Luck! and if you get this script working, please pass it my way!

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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Glenn Chisholm wrote:

> Howdy 
> 	I need to automate the installation of freebsd onto 120 machines
> in as quick a time as possible. I was wondering if you have any pointers
> or advice on how to create suck a beast?
> 
> glenn
> 
> 
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