Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:14:52 +0100 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Building your own FreeBSD installation CD-ROM Message-ID: <41ED440C.9090401@landgren.net>
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List, (I asked this question last week on -questions but received zero answers. My apologies if this is the second time you are seeing this question). how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install straight away. I could also set up cfengine so that as soon as the machine came to life it could go and connect to my cfengine repository and download all the latest configurations to move into operational status. E.g., I'd like to just have to specify the partition layout, the name and IP of the machine, and its role(s): (web, dns, squid, mta, samba...) This would make rebuilding so much faster if a machine was catastrophically trashed. I could just hand someone a CD and a sheet of paper and they should be able to work it out by themselves without knowing too much about the ins and outs of FreeBSD. I could go on holidays without being stressed out. Thanks for any pointers to documentation on the subject, I'm sure people have done this before, but I can't coax the results out from my web searches. Thanks, David
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