From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 22:44:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8063B16A51F for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandler@chapman.edu) Received: from calais.chapman.edu (calais.chapman.edu [192.77.116.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3E413C45A for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandler@chapman.edu) Received: from [206.211.142.181] (ist181.chapman.edu [206.211.142.181]) by calais.chapman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308DB2E5BC; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45A56C3B.4070908@chapman.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:44:11 -0800 From: Jay Chandler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Jones References: <73387c420701071410p710a3436gdecda61d57643950@mail.gmail.com> <45A55416.4060203@netfence.it> <45A55C93.3020402@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <45A55C93.3020402@thingy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Chapman-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Chapman-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Chapman-MailScanner-From: chandler@chapman.edu X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:44:16 -0000 Howard Jones wrote: > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via >> PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( >> Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed >> this, I'd like to hear about it. >> > This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've just had the nice > experience of taking delivery of a dozen Dell servers and had them all > up and running with my own customisations and package selection in one > afternoon with one keypress. They are installed as quick as I can press F12. > > >> 2. it's way past what's currently considered "user friendly" >> >> Please don't get any graphics bloatware in the way. :-) >> > Amen. > > Really, if you are put off by the installer, then once that has > completed., the rest of the "management tools" (i.e. vi) are not going > give you the warm fuzzies either. If you need the graphical management, > and nice installer, isn't that what PCBSD is for? Having a graphical > installer would be like having a super luxury limo with bar and pool, > but which stops in the desert and leaves you by a phone box. > > I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel.