From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 12 13:13: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6404B37B406 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id DBB3A5D01F; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:12:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:12:59 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:47:58PM +0200 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 * Rahul Siddharthan [010712 14:48] wrote: > [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. No, they don't run FreeBSD. They were interested in having someone like me or the dozen of other FreeBSD kernel developers to turn to for help as well as the superior debugging features of FreeBSD, that's why I did the setup for them. However in the end they chose to stay with Linux, I don't think much actual evaluation was really done, basically one day someone needed that rack running linnex so they spammed over it. It was fun, but we missed. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message