Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:40:46 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation configuration Message-ID: <17415.33406.325997.256300@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <44077D0A.9080406@daleco.biz> References: <004b01c63e47$86ecbde0$51ae2747@approved> <44077D0A.9080406@daleco.biz>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Kevin Kinsey writes: > >Is there any way to install freebsd very easily > >just by popping in a cd rom and following prompts? > >I tried it and got nowhere fast. > > I would maintain that FreeBSD isn't terribly difficult > to install. But if by "prompts" you mean 6.49 "Yes/No" > type questions, the answer is, "of course not." It's > a tad more like Christmas Eve: put the kids to bed, > collect the tools, open the box, RTFM, and put it > together before dawn..... It is my understanding this is not technically true. If I had 100 identical machines, I would investigate the "make release" path and roll my own. I believe this gives you the ability to include a configuration file which auto-answers most if not all of the sysinsall questions. For a single machine, there is - or a least used to be - an "express" install option. I've never used it, so I have no idea how "express" it was. Robert Huff
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?17415.33406.325997.256300>