From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 21:57:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from easynet-gw.netvalue.fr (unknown [212.180.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9D037B491 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.netvalue.fr (unknown [192.168.1.13]) by easynet-gw.netvalue.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D20A8C46 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 06:59:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-hk.netvalue.fr ([192.168.100.13]) by mail.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA6F63 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 06:56:01 +0100 Received: from erwan.netvalue.fr ([192.168.100.100]) by mail-hk.netvalue.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G8MR5L00.O87; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:09 +0800 Received: from netvalue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by erwan.netvalue.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CC91A1F; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:21 +0800 (HKT) Message-ID: <3A877B05.F396EBB3@netvalue.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:56:21 +0800 From: Erwan Arzur Organization: NetValue Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr-FR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Walter Whitesell II , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: custom install files References: <000a01c093bd$bdd92300$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <01021018585200.00448@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh Paetzel wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Walter Whitesell II wrote: > > > > Is there anyplace on the net to find custom install files for FreeBSD? > > Say for example I want to have a machine be a mail server. I could = > > download > > an install file and choose it during the installation so that I wouldn't = > > have to go > > through selecting everything. And I wouldn't have anything that I don't = > > neccessarily > > need to run it. > > > > Walter Whitesell II > > > > > > Uh, no. Not that I have ever heard of. > > Josh > Maybe building a custom install.cfg file (there is a nice option in the installation procedure to load it from a DOS floppy) would help ? Look into /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg It at least allows to install a new box in 2 minutes instead of 10 ;-) Nice job ! -- Erwan Arzur NetValue ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message