Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:05:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kick start installation Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010191453350.3342-100000@jade> In-Reply-To: <20001018160012.N272@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> [001018 15:17] wrote: > > > > I hope that FreeBSD has or will have the ability to do kick start > > installation - After you boot from CD-ROM, it will install everything > > automatically according to previously made selectiosn (saved in a > > configuration file). This will make maintenance of many machines easy. > > This is available via the sysinstall.cfg file, have a look at > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ > > it has a sample sysinstall.cfg that you can use along with other > suggestions on how to make a completely hands-off install process. > I would like to try it. Can you give me more clarification: (1) Can I use a Sun workstation as the server? Note that I am only a normal user of the Sun workstation, but I guess that I can put all install files under my directory. I also do not use DHCP - my freebsd boxes will use fixed IP addresses. (2) I wonder whether the install.cfg is produced by /stand/sysinstall. If so, I should be able to install one machine manually and the rest will be installed kick-start. (3) Does this process also include disk slicing/partitioning? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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