Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:31 +0200 (CEST) From: hannes.sowa@t-online.de To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Automatic installations Message-ID: <XFMail.010910183631.mail@nukenet.darktech.org> In-Reply-To: <3B9CDF58.7040802@i-clue.de>
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On 10-Sep-01 Christoph Sold wrote: > hannes.sowa@t-online.de wrote: > >>Hello! >> >>Is there a method to install FreeBSD from CD without anyone controlling the >>installation. It must also be possible to configure DHCP, VPN, Natd and >>rounting, perhaps also other net-services. Is there a framework which can be >>used by scripts(Perl, sh, etc...) to control such an installation? Perhaps, >>something like this is in development. If not, perhaps this could be my first >>FreeBSD-Project. :) >> > > AFAIK, there is no suich thing (yet). Most ISPs do with duplicating > existing HDs, then modifying that configuration. You may be able to get > a decent DHCP configuration working on a master HD, then duplicate that. It must be CDs. They will be send to the little offices of the company all over Europe. Perhaps it is possible to build a server with the correct kernel and configuration of the network services and then to burn it on cd. A bootloader on a floppy will copy the CD byte per byte onto the harddisk. The problem is, that I don't know the hardware of the computers. But I think FreeBSD will run on them with a GENERIC-kernel. They won't be too exotic. Perhaps I will take a look at SuSE's alice, which provides this facility to SuSE Linux. bye Hannes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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