From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 14:25:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26859 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (root@bogslab.ucdavis.edu [128.120.162.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26841 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (root@myrtle1.bogs.org [198.137.203.39]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA26096 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from myrtle1.bogs.org (greg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myrtle1.bogs.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA06420 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:15:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199802232215.OAA06420@myrtle1.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: roll-in installation? Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:14:48 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a mechanism already in place which would allow a hands-off roll-in installation from SCSI tape of a FreeBSD distribution onto a virgin machine? What I have in mind would be auto-generating a tape image of the model system using some combination of dump, tar, and dd, along with parameter blocks containing information for fdisk/mkfs/format. Then you boot to a floppy containing code which can deal with the tape; it rolls it in, and, presto changeo, you've got a complete, bootable, system only needing its rc.conf file edited in order to run. (Assuming the model has the same hardware as the target, of course.) Has anyone done this? -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message