Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew ARENSBurger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu> To: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> Cc: "'jheath@istrength.net'" <jheath@istrength.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SV: Mass install automation Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.1010109133930.13668B-100000@vinland.cfar.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F838@fernonorden.com>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Per Tore Larsen wrote: > Using Norton Ghost to make an image of the harddrive > on an installed reference Freebsd box. > Then setup an Ghost server on an Windows machine. > Create boot disk. > The install should take it from there. The main issue I can think of with this is that since Ghost is OS-independent, that means that it can't deal with OS-specific stuff. If you set up a machine the way you want, then use Ghost to make 50-100 copies of it, they'll all be absolutely identical: if you set the hostname in /etc/rc.conf, the'll all have the same hostname etc. I think you can get away with this if you use DHCP. Otherwise, you'll need to run a post-install script on each machine to install an appropriate /etc/rc.conf and make any other customization. /AA/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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