Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:51:57 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kick start installation Message-ID: <20001021185157.G28123@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010191453350.3342-100000@jade>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:05:19PM -0400 References: <20001018160012.N272@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010191453350.3342-100000@jade>
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* Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> [001019 12:05] wrote: > > > 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. Afaik PXE requires dhcp in order to bootstrap, without it you're pretty much out of luck. > (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. Not that I know of, your best bet is to use mine as a template and go from there. > (3) Does this process also include disk slicing/partitioning? Yes, that's also done with my sysinstall.cfg file. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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