Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:48:25 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Harald Neuffer <neuf@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de>, Ed <Ed.Braaten@intel.com>, stable@freebsd.org Cc: ed@braatens.org Subject: Re: How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030618134656.081a0380@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <3EF0370D.CF06CFC@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de> References: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com>
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Another option that might work for you is ghost4unix (http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/). If you have a lot of identical systems to create, it works quite well. ---Mike At 11:55 AM 18/06/2003 +0200, Harald Neuffer wrote: >Ed wrote: > > > > I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD > > so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-) > > install. > > > > The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution > > techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config > > file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy. > > We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the > > install.cfg from the bootable CD. I've found other folks asking > > the same question, but to date no answers... > > > > Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated! >Hi, > >have think about booting and installing your FreeBSD machines over the >net. Have a look to >http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml > >I assume you have Intel network cards in your computers, thus they >should boot via PXE. > >Hope this helps, > >Harald >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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