From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 1:18: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6A637B790 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13FXzx-000Gl8-00; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:17:33 +0200 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:17:33 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: John Baldwin , Simara , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Grafical Installation Message-ID: <20000721101733.A64399@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200007210022.RAA33689@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <18958218493.20000721101218@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <18958218493.20000721101218@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:12:18AM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-07-21 (10:12), Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > It will use Turbo Vision during the actual install. Post-install it will > > be able to run both in Turbo Vision at the console, or in X with a Qt back > > end (possibly GTK and other backends as well). > > May I suggest to equip either sysinstall or the new tool with some > kickstart functionality (ie the program records what you're doing > during install, writes a script and lets you replicate the > installation automatically on other systems)? This would be of great > help when it comes to the installation of several identical systems at > a time. In our case, this would be the installation of new > webservers... sysinstall already has a "kickstart functionality". See /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message