From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 12 12:48: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4A137B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:48:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f6CJlxm86919 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:47:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id VAA72977 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:47:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:47:58 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org>; from bright@sneakerz.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:32:05PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -advocacy] Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 14:32:05: > * Nick Popoff [010712 14:30] wrote: > > > > How about allowing for a pre-scripted installer which would let you > > do unattended installations or upgrades of FreeBSD via a PXE netboot? > > Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines > installed in about an hour: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ Google uses FreeBSD now? They're always being advertised as the world's biggest linux shop. Any details -- what are their reasons, what fraction of machines run linux, etc? Should Google be mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/cgallery.html? I think if they use FreeBSD in a significant way, it's quite a good advertisement -- it certainly has been for linux. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message