From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 10:51: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinland.cfar.umd.edu (vinland.cfar.umd.edu [128.8.132.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F185437B6AD for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (arensb@localhost) by vinland.cfar.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA14899; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:50:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew ARENSBurger To: Per Tore Larsen Cc: "'jheath@istrength.net'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: SV: Mass install automation In-Reply-To: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F838@fernonorden.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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