From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 28 7:45:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from otto.oss.uswest.net (otto.oss.uswest.net [204.147.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FA1837B722 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pmckenna@oss.uswest.net) Received: (qmail 9011 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2000 15:50:23 -0000 Received: from otto.oss.uswest.net (HELO oss.uswest.net) (204.147.85.81) by otto.oss.uswest.net with SMTP; 28 Feb 2000 15:50:23 -0000 Message-ID: <38BA993F.C0DDFB72@oss.uswest.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:50:23 -0600 From: Pete Mckenna X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines References: <4.2.2.20000225102306.00c59600@216.67.12.69> <20000227223045.A41888@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > I'm wondering if there might not be a way to streamline this install > > process, such that a boot floopy and script could be created to take a > > minimum amount of information, and then "do the right thing" as for the > > install. Things like putting in the packet filters, the kernel, IP > > config, etc. > > See sysinstall(8); you can script sysinstall. See > > src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg I built a pico floppy under 3.2 that uses sysinstall to do most of this. a search of my name in the pico mailing list should turn it up. Pete -- Peter McKenna U S WEST !NTERPRISE pmckenna@uswest.net http://www.interprise.com/ Main 612-664-4000 FAX 612-664-4770 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message