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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 00:48:51 -0500
From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
To: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Making a scripted installation of FreeBSD
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Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> wrote:
> I'm having an interesting problem. My company has got NT as standard OS
> for new installations. The installation of NT is totally scripted, so
> that the sysops in the different regions (we are a Radio Company spread
> all over the country) just enter some data (network card, video card,
> IP-address, MAC-address, sound card) into a web interface, to a database.
> 
> Then the machine installing is booted with a floppy to log into the
> network, get a base image of the file system and then continue the
> installation automatically.
> 
> Now, I got a question. Could we make (just for the challenge) FreeBSD
> available as an option for OS? Well, making it a choice in the web
> interface is the easy part :), but how do I make an unattended
> installation of FreeBSD from a script?
> 
> My first idea was to start with a DOS-partition and run fbsdboot.exe
> from there, but how do I proceed?

You may want to look at /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg.
It is an automated install file.  All you need is a floppy disk (I think).

I have never used it and I believe the source is the documentation, perhaps
after you become familiar with it you could write some. ;-)

Good Luck,
Nathan

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