From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 12:32: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C513837B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id 4768D5D010; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:32:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:32:05 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nick Popoff Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from nick@bloodletting.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:32:10PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nick Popoff [010712 14:30] wrote: > > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > > - - every class has properties which can be preloaded (unattended > > install functionality from 'recorded' install session or manually > > generated setup) > > - - remote install dialog ui using ethernet as transport (yay!) would > > be a nice idea > > How about allowing for a pre-scripted installer which would let you > do unattended installations or upgrades of FreeBSD via a PXE netboot? > > I love the idea of wheeling a giant cabinet of new 1U boxes into my cage, > turning on the power, then standing back as they all busily boot up and > install themselves. Then every time they boot again that installer could > check to make sure the box was running the latest version, and do an > upgrade at boot time if needed. Fun! > > You could then roll your own "mail server", "database", and "web server" > installer scripts and have the pxe/tftp master server dynamically feed out > the images which your server farm is in short supply of. You could run > Yahoo with one IT guy whos main job would be weightlifting so that he'd be > strong enough to wheel Rackable Systems cabinets into Exodus by himself. > Okay, enough... :) Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines installed in about an hour: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message